More than 227,000 people died in the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and experts warn it could happen again.

On December 26, 2004, the devastating Sumatra earthquake and the tsunami that followed caused over 230.000 victims in 14 ...

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook the seafloor off Indonesia, sending a 100-foot wall of water to ...

When the earthquake struck, the world rattled ... waves that swamped Sumatra within minutes of the quake. Tsunami detection ...

“It really woke up the entire world ... Sumatra within minutes of the quake. Tsunami detection buoys are used by the Bureau of Meteorology to monitor sea levels. Credit: Bureau of Meteorology ...

Boxing Day 2004 produced one of the most devastating disasters the world has seen when a massive ... earthquake had struck the coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia and triggered the tsunami ...

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Twenty years after the deadliest wave in recorded history, most oceans have warning systems and communities have learned how best to escape the danger.

The bulk of your research has been on Islamic legal systems that prevailed in the Indian Ocean region, particularly Shafi’ism ...