JAKARTA (Reuters) - A tsunami killed at least 222 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra and injured hundreds following an underwater landslide caused by a volcanic eruption ...
In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in ... resulting in the deaths of nearly 130,000 people here. Now the city has a new quake detection and tsunami warning system ...
Huge death toll - A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. The worst affected area was northern Sumatra, where more ...
Paula would revise the numbers she entered into her database numerous times over several years, ending up with a death ... of the Sumatra-Andaman Islands earthquake and the unfolding tsunami ...
The tsunami -- generated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra -- carried in ... but Indonesia saw the highest death toll -- with more than 100,000 killed in ...
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed ... side of Sumatra, bore the brunt of the disaster with more than half of the total death toll reported.
the day the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami struck across South and Southeast Asia, after a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island.
The tsunami was triggered by a powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 26 December ... recorded the most number of deaths at over 170,000. Today, many wept as ...
She remembers the stench of death and how she thought everything ... that there’s an earthquake in Sumatra, everyone will be spooked,” he said. About once a year, a siren blares off in a tsunami ...