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 ...

Several stores reported damage after California was hit with ... about evacuation and other responses. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami warning systems have seen significant improvements.

Newly discovered footage taken in Shizuoka Prefecture after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake constitutes what is probably among the oldest 35-millimeter records of tsunami damage in Japan.

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting" – two decades on from one of the deadliest disasters ever recorded. Daniel Poole, from ...

“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 ...

Satellite images show the moment an undersea volcano in the Pacific nation of Tonga erupted and triggered a tsunami, which damaged the archipelago’s coastline. Many homes were destroyed and vast ...

where tsunami countermeasures were the most advanced in Japan, and caused devastating damage. Tsunami impacts on structures and the dangers of tsunami-induced debris have been recognized as a result ...

“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 ...