LHOKNGA, Indonesia (AP) — Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has transformed her resilience into purpose. Defying Aceh’s ...
On December 26th, 2004, a whopping 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Indonesia’s island of Sumatra. In the aftermath of the quake, a massive tsunami was triggered, sending waves ...
Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge. By Katrina Miller The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 ...
A 9.3 magnitude earthquake under the Indian Ocean has caused a 30-metre tsunami that had wiped out hundreds of communities in minutes, affecting countries from Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India to ...
Mohd Riswan, 72, remembers his father telling him bedtime stories about tsunamis, called smong in the local Devayan language ...
Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 28, 1908, a major earthquake followed ...
A girl thought to have died in the Indian Ocean tsunami has been reunited with her family after being found alive nearly a decade later, her parents said Friday. Raudhatul Jannah was just four when ...