If you ever notice a river go suddenly quiet, that’s your cue to get to higher ground and not film. And if snow beneath your ...

Azzahra Layusa, survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, in Aceh, Indonesia. As we mark the 21st anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, UNDP and the Government of Japan share the stories of ...

This interview was conducted in September 2025 by UNDP as part of the regional Tsunami Project, supported by the Government of Japan. The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami changed Prach Sawangpong ...

Today, July 30, 2025 a powerful undersea earthquake near the Kuril Islands off the Russian coast triggered tsunami alerts across the Pacific, placing regions such as Hawaii and coastal California on ...

Tsunamis are giant waves caused mainly by underwater earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or landslides. Unlike ordinary waves, tsunamis travel at high speeds across oceans and grow taller as they ...

With waves as tall as 100 feet and capable of moving as fast as jet planes, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated more than a dozen countries and left nearly 230,000 people dead. On the morning of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Hoosier Jim Morris was serving as the head of the World Food Programme, which had already been providing aid to the civil war-stricken island of Sri Lanka. Three weeks after the ...

“The devastation was unimaginable,” said Arianto Andrian, describing what he experienced in Indonesia as he recalled the catastrophic Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that struck the shores of ...

Deacon Ned Berghausen, foreground right, is pictured helping carry a tsunami survivor to safety after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck Thailand. He was 24 years old at the time and The deacon, ...

December 26 marked 20 years since a massive tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean, leaving death and destruction in its wake on a vast scale in country after country. Officially, an estimated 227,000 ...

I gave two papers at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in December 2004. One was about tsunami hazards of San Francisco Bay and the other a poster on a new method of tsunami hazard ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...