On Boxing Day in 2004, a magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck off Sumatra, leading to a deadly tsunami. Andrew Gissing, chief executive of the Commonwealth-funded Natural Hazards Research Australia ...
When the destruction of the Boxing Day tsunami swept across 14 countries killing more than 227,000 people, it prompted an ...
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake jolts Japan's Kyushu region, sparking fear of potential destruction and aftershocks.
“There wasn’t a lot done for tsunami in Australia before 2004. There’s obviously been a lot done since,” Gissing said. “There was no warning system in the Indian Ocean and there was no ...
They then made their way back to Singapore, where Dan was based, and Lizz returned home to Australia. Tourists trying to escape the tsunami on Boxing Day, 2004. Picture: AFP / STR The devastation ...
The 2004 tsunami was not simply a natural disaster but a graphic exposure of the failure of the capitalist system, the ruling ...
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of Quad cooperation, India, Australia, Japan, and the United States highlighted the ...
The New South Wales coast has seen between 40 and 50 tsunami events since colonisation. Since 2004, Australia has invested heavily in tsunami preparation. Twenty years after the Indian Ocean ...