Odisha has declared 74 more coastal villages “tsunami ready” under the UNESCO-IOC programme, taking the total number of ...

Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries. A 9 ...

Hyderabad: A decade after the Indian Ocean tsunami hit several countries in the Asia-Pacific region killing over 200,000 people, India has not only developed an effective early warning system but is ...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha has achieved a crucial milestone in strengthening community-based disaster preparedness, with 100 coastal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Relatives of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candlelight vigil as they recognize the 20th anniversary of the ...

New DelhiL Russia’s Far East was struck with one of the world’s strongest earthquakes on Wednesday. An 8.8-magnitude quake set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for ...

NAGAPATTINAM, India (AP) — He was a young boy playing cricket with friends on a beach around 9:30 in the morning when a 9.1 magnitude earthquake violently shook the earth, and a tsunami struck from ...

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 ...

The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ever more intense spark panic each time howling gales whip up waves.

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 ...