Encouraging the active participation of residents is essential to preserving disaster memory, maintaining memorials and ...

Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old tsunami survivor, operates a coffee machine at the cafe she runs in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Qurrata Ayuni ...

People play in the water at Ulee Lheue beach which was one of the areas hardest hit by Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, in Banda Aceh, Aceh Province, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (AP Photo ...

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand sustained the brunt of the damage. Indonesian officials estimated that ...

More than 100,000 houses were rebuilt in the westernmost Indonesian province of Aceh alone, according to the Indonesian government. The tsunami also forced a reckoning about the preparedness of ...

The tsunami science world was small and mostly under the radar of mainstream media. There was plenty of interesting work ...

In Indonesia’s Aceh Province, more than 14,000 people were interred in one mass grave. Prabu Deepan, of Tearfund, witnessed the disaster. He is now director of the Asia region for the charity. “The ...

Aceh, situated on the northern tip of Sumatra Island, enjoys special autonomy allowing it to implement Sharia law. This arrangement is part of a peace agreement that ended a decades-long rebellion ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Dec. 28, 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria, ...

On Dec. 28, 1908, a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria, killing at least 70,000 people. Per reports, the earthquake registered 7.1 ...

A significant landslide in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, discovered by the National Institute of Oceanography, poses risks to underwater structures and potential tsunami threats. Occurring between ...

PHANG-NGA, Thailand: When the Indian Ocean tsunami hit the south-western coast of Thailand in 2004, it claimed over 5,000 lives. But the local indigenous Moken people miraculously survived with ...