This Christmas Day marks 21 years since the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami. As we remember the hundreds of thousands of ...

Twenty-one years after the 2004 tsunami almost wiped out Ban Nam Khem, the small fishing village is coping with changing ...

One of the worst natural disasters took place on December 26, 2004 following one of the strongest earthquakes in the oceans.

The disaster gave rise to global tsunami warning networks, saving countless lives since, as seen in Japan's 2011 Tohoku event ...

If your home was destroyed by a sudden disaster that you couldn't control, you would hope that at the very least, your insurance would cover your losses. However, disaster risk financing systems are ...

Oregon state Rep. Paul Evans, D-Monmouth, has been introducing legislation to modernize the state’s emergency preparedness and response processes for years. He called the state’s tsunami warnings last ...

Sri Lanka will observe a two-minute silence island-wide tomorrow (26) from 9.25 a.m. to 9.27 a.m. to mark National Safety Day, in memory of those who lost their lives in the 2004 tsunami and other ...

A group of specialist Sumatran elephants have joined recovery operations in Aceh following the catastrophic landfall of ...

The Disaster Management Centre says a program has been launched to reactivate the tsunami warning towers that are currently ...

There’s a reason filmmakers keep coming back to giant walls of water: they’re both beautiful and horrifying. A tsunami on screen can feel like nature itself has become the villain—unstoppable, ...

A month after the disaster, residents are still struggling to recover as anger against Jakarta’s slow rescue response mounts.

The President’s statement that the current Disaster Management Act is flawed may have been a feint to divert attention away ...