SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Sumatra’s Barisan Mountains down to the ...

The giant waves that engulfed the impoverished province on the northern tip of Sumatra ... and Indonesia -- led by a new pro-reconciliation president -- withdrawing troops. "The tsunami made ...

In December 2004, a massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake off Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries.

Exactly 20 years ago, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake occurred on Dec. 26 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka ...

People in Indonesia are in shock and mourning after a tsunami left at least 400 people ... a volcano erupting on an island between Java and Sumatra. One eyewitness described the scene to NHK.

Indonesia’s National Research & Innovation Agency (BRIN – Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional), jointly with the Meteorology, ...

TWENTY years ago the bodies of a Lyme Regis couple who died in the Asian tsunami disaster were recovered. The Bridport & Lyme Regis News of Friday, April 22, 2005, reported that the bodies of John and ...

A woman carries a child at an evacuation centre at Labuhan after a tsunami hit Banten province, Indonesia December ... Sunda Strait between the islands of Sumatra and Java. At least 128 people ...

A court in Indonesia has sentenced a man to five years in prison for the killing of a critically endangered Sumatran tiger in September last year in North Sumatra province. “As far as I know ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5. off the coast of Chile near Valdivia and Puerto Montt area.

A dozen more were injured in the Indonesian province Aceh ... A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of northern Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, killed more than 283,000 people ...