Natural disasters can strike with little to no warning, as demonstrated by recent seismic events like the 6.9-magnitude earthquake near Papua New Guinea, which prompted tsunami warnings. This article ...

(CNN) -- Despite its devastating toll of human misery, the December 2004 tsunami had relatively little impact on the broad picture of Asian regional economic growth in 2005. Excluding Japan ...

Weinstein who was in Colombo recently, reliving that long and fateful day of December 26, five years ago. But their links were basically ... Dispelling speculation that at the time of the 2004 tsunami ...

A major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2 – 9.3 struck off the coast of Indonesia on December 26, 2004, prompting a massive tsunami with waves up to 30m. It killed more than 220,000 people in ...

Prasanna, a victim of the December 2004 tsunami that swept through thousands of homes in Sri Lanka, said: “It was as bad as the tsunami.” Ajit Prasanna and son. Soon after Prasanna’s family and others ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times ... present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.

Girl's family displaced by December 2004 tsunami, renewed civil war in Sri Lanka Next Article in World » COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters)-- Humble woodcutter Mohammed Sultan Nafeek's teenage daughter ...

Presents a minute-by-minute account of the most destructive tsunami in modern times, told through archives and personal testimonies of survivors present in Thailand and Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.

The Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) Board of Education discussed school safety and the District’s response to the ...