Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

“Everybody was very intrigued by it, and we all stood at the seaside to look at it again,” he said, recalling the fateful day of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. When another large wave ...

“After the occurrence of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami ... planting rows of palm trees along the coast could help mitigate tsunami damage by absorbing some of the incoming energy of the wave ...