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Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220,000 people across more than a dozen countries. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-indian-ocean-tsunami-years.html Environment Thu, 26 Dec 2024 04:10:36 EST news654408620 Almost 1,000 kilometers off the Thai coast devastated by a tsunami 20 years ago, engineers lower a detection buoy into the waves—a key link in a warning system intended to ensure no disaster is as deadly again. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-tsunami-buoys-safeguarding-thailand.html Environment Tue, 24 Dec 2024 07:33:37 EST news654248010 The deadly tsunami that swamped India's southern coast two decades ago was a one-off disaster, but storms that are growing ever more intense spark panic each time howling gales whip up waves. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-storm-overshadow-india-coast-decades.html Environment Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:20:39 EST news653804434 20 years have passed since the Aceh tsunami, which left deep scars on Indonesia, especially for those directly affected. Aceh was also recovering from a three-decade armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement and the national government https://phys.org/news/2024-12-years-aceh-tsunami-megathrust-threat.html Earth Sciences Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:00:02 EST news652627888 The massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 is the fifth-deadliest this century. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-ten-deadliest-quakes-21st-century.html Environment Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:22:50 EST news595502562 A strong 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit deep under the ocean off Indonesia and East Timor early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey reported. https://phys.org/news/2023-01-strong-magnitude-quake-indonesia-usgs.html Environment Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:23:35 EST news592547012 A strong earthquake jolted Indonesia's holiday island of Bali early on Thursday, but no tsunami warning was issued. https://phys.org/news/2020-03-magnitude-quake-south-indonesia-bali.html Environment Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:07:21 EDT news503773640 Indonesian authorities lifted a tsunami warning late Friday after a powerful earthquake earlier struck off the southern coast of heavily populated Java island. https://phys.org/news/2019-08-indonesia-tsunami-powerful-quake-java.html Environment Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:53:35 EDT news483969210 A major 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia Sunday, sending panicked residents running into the streets, but no tsunami warning was issued. https://phys.org/news/2019-07-major-quake-remote-malukus-eastern.html Environment Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:16:54 EDT news482318209 A volcano-triggered tsunami has left at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials said Sunday, voicing fears that the toll would rise further. https://phys.org/news/2018-12-dead-volcano-triggered-tsunami-indonesia.html Environment Sun, 23 Dec 2018 15:04:02 EST news464799836 In 2004, a tsunami devastated much of the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. An international team of researchers has studied the long-term impact that rebuilding efforts in coastal areas have had on the community. https://phys.org/news/2018-01-society-reconstruction.html Environment Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:22:12 EST news434985684 Just before 8:00 a.m. local time on December 26, 2004, people in southeast Asia were starting their days when the third strongest recorded earthquake in history ripped a 1,500-kilometer tear in the ocean floor off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. https://phys.org/news/2017-11-largest-longest-multiphysics-earthquake-simulation.html Earth Sciences Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:50:46 EST news429792636 An international team of scientists has found evidence suggesting the dehydration of minerals deep below the ocean floor influenced the severity of the Sumatra earthquake, which took place on December 26, 2004. https://phys.org/news/2017-05-drill-deep-sumatra-earthquake-severe.html Earth Sciences Thu, 25 May 2017 14:00:04 EDT news414929373 The same gravitational force that creates high tides when the Moon and Sun align may also play a role in triggering major earthquakes, according to a study released Monday. https://phys.org/news/2016-09-odds-mega-quake-high-tide.html Earth Sciences Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:06:09 EDT news392904357 The 26 December 2004 Mw ~9.2 Indian Ocean earthquake (also known as the Sumatra-Andaman or Aceh-Andaman earthquake), which generated massive, destructive tsunamis, especially along the Aceh coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, clearly demonstrated the need for a better understanding of how frequently subduction zone earthquakes and tsunamis occur. Toward that end, Harvey M. Kelsey of Humboldt State University and colleagues present a study of earthquake history in the area. https://phys.org/news/2015-06-subduction-zone-earthquakes.html Earth Sciences Wed, 24 Jun 2015 08:00:01 EDT news354348225 The day after Christmas this year will mark the 10 anniversary of the tsunami disaster in the Indian Ocean. On 26 December 2004, a quarter of a million people lost their lives, five million required immediate aid and 1.8 million citizens were rendered homeless. The natural disaster, which caused extreme devastation over huge areas and the accompanying grief and anxiety, especially in Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka exceeded the imaginable and reached such drastic dimensions, mainly due to the lack of a warning facility and a disaster management plan for the entire Indian Ocean region at this time. https://phys.org/news/2014-12-tsunami-early-indian-ocean-ten-years.html Earth Sciences Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:21:15 EST news338196067 Much has been learned from the devastating experience of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, and it's had lasting benefits for disaster management plans in Australia, according to forensic staff from the University of Adelaide. https://phys.org/news/2014-12-weve-day-tsunami.html Environment Fri, 19 Dec 2014 06:02:37 EST news338191349 On December 26, 2004, Dilanthi Amaratunga – who is now a Professor at the University of Huddersfield – was coming to the end of a family visit to her home country of Sri Lanka.  There were indications that a serious environmental disturbance was developing.  "Small boys were running towards us saying the sea was coming to the land!" she said.  https://phys.org/news/2014-11-profs-key-role-tsunami-mitigation.html Earth Sciences Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:20:01 EST news334919204 The last ten years have been a remarkable time for great earthquakes. Since December 2004 there have been no less than 18 quakes of Mw8.0 or greater – a rate of more than twice that seen from 1900 to mid-2004. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and massive damage has resulted from these great earthquakes. But as devastating as such events can be, these recent great quakes have come with a silver lining: They coincide with unprecedented advances in technological and scientific capacity for learning from them. https://phys.org/news/2014-10-global-surge-great-earthquakes-.html Earth Sciences Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:29:17 EDT news333109749 Nearly two dozen countries next Wednesday will take part in a full-scale test of the Indian Ocean's tsunami alert system, using the 2004 Sumatra quake as the basis for the exercise, UNESCO said on Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2011-10-indian-ocean-tsunami-oct.html Earth Sciences Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:19:34 EDT news237129552 (PhysOrg.com) -- The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami killed 230,000 people. The next time a tsunami threatens Indian Ocean nations, a lifesaving early warning system spearheaded by the EU will be in place. https://phys.org/news/2010-06-tsunami-early.html Earth Sciences Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:24:24 EDT news195110587 Australian researchers describe a mathematical model in the International Journal of Operational Research that can find the ten optimal sites at which tsunami detection buoys and sea-level monitors should be installed. The model could save time and money in the installation of a detection system as well as providing warning for the maximum number of people should a potentially devastating tsunami occur again in the Indian Ocean. https://phys.org/news/2010-04-tsunami-buoys.html Mathematics Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:30:01 EDT news191668510 A huge wave-generating quake capable of killing as many people as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami could strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the city of Padang is in the firing line, a team of seismologists said on Sunday. https://phys.org/news/2010-01-tsunami-generating-quake-indonesia-scientists.html Earth Sciences Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:10:30 EST news182970593 The huge earthquake that hit Sumatra occurred at a deep, unexpected location, illustrating the dangerously complex geological mosaic in this area, a seismologist told AFP on Thursday. https://phys.org/news/2009-10-sumatra-quake-seismologists.html Earth Sciences Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:02 EDT news173621096 (PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. seismologists have found evidence that the massive 2004 earthquake that triggered killer tsunamis throughout the Indian Ocean weakened at least a portion of California's famed San Andreas Fault. The results, which appear this week in the journal Nature, suggest that the Earth's largest earthquakes can weaken fault zones worldwide and may trigger periods of increased global seismic activity. https://phys.org/news/2009-09-major-quakes-weaken-seismic-faults.html Earth Sciences Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:29 EDT news173534942 Claims by an Italian technician to have foretold the devastating quake which struck central Italy prompted seismologists on Tuesday to shake their heads in sadness and skepticism. https://phys.org/news/2009-04-quake-distant-seismologists.html Earth Sciences Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:36:42 EDT news158312147 Scientists said a killer earthquake that struck central Italy on Monday occurred in a notorious trouble spot and warned further powerful shocks in the coming months could not be ruled out. https://phys.org/news/2009-04-mountain-spine-quake-hotspot.html Earth Sciences Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:29:33 EDT news158236133 A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout the Indian Ocean four years ago today. https://phys.org/news/2008-12-years-tsunami-corals-stage-comeback.html Environment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:29:33 EST news149768973 The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group of earthquake researchers led by scientists from the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). https://phys.org/news/2008-12-potential-large-earthquake-coast-sumatra.html Earth Sciences Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:24:14 EST news147533054 The newly implemented Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean, GITEWS, goes into operation today and with this, the system enters its final phase of optimisation. As foreseen, the system was officially handed over to the BMKG (Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysical Agency of Indonesia) by the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, slightly less than four years after the catastrophe of 2004. https://phys.org/news/2008-11-approach-tsunami-early.html Earth Sciences Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:43:55 EST news145543435