On December 26, 2004, at 7:58 a.m. Western Indonesian Time, the world was struck by one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history,the Aceh Tsunami. What began as an ordinary day for ...

When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on Dec. 26, 2004, no one saw the massive waves coming. Authorities in Indonesia, where a 9.1 magnitude quake sparked the tsunami, weren't able to send out an ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive tsunami was triggered by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra island. The giant wall of water killed about 230,000 people in a dozen countries as far away as East Africa.

The “megathrust” earthquake’s undersea magnitude was 9.0, recorded as one of the worst in Japan’s history. It began on the Pacific seabed 45 miles away from the eastern coast of Japan, as reported by ...

Nov. 1, 1755 - Tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean destroyed Lisbon and killed an estimated 60,000. Aug. 27, 1883 - The eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia killed an estimated 36,000.

In the wake of the Lituya tsunami, scientists realized for the first time that a landslide—90 million tons of rock in the case of Lituya—could produce a giant wave. Valdivia, Chile, May 22, 1960 ...

Tsunami Mysterious 'mega-tsunamis' that shook the entire world for 9 days revealed by satellite Geology There's a humongous boulder on a cliff in Tonga. Now we know how it got there.

Survivors and mourners gathered at mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand and other places along the Indian Ocean that were devastated by the 2004 tsunami — the deadliest in the world.

Almost a quarter of a million people died in the tsunami that hit much of Asia on Dec. 26, 2004. Indonesia was devastated, with an estimated 167,000 people killed. In Thailand, about half of the ...