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A man had no idea that he was capturing a tragic moment in history while filming his mates on holiday. It's been quite commonplace for people in the 21st century to document what they get up to on ...
IndonesiaA u.s. marine helicopter loaded with food flies over Lampuuk in northern sumatra on january 4, 2005, nine days after a tsunami killed most of the village’s 7,000 residents— and some ...
Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...
Rescuers were searching Thursday for 30 people who were missing after a ferry sank and four people died the previous night ...
I visit the Tsunami Memorial in Khao Lak Thailand to reflect on the Khao Lak Tsunami 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami tragedy in Thailand and around the Indian Ocean. I'm sure we have all seen footage from ...
December 26, 2004. The Queen of the Sea express departs Ambalangoda, packed with holiday travelers. But just miles down the tracks, a wall of water taller than the train is charging ashore. With ...
Beachgoers in Portugal scrambled for cover over the weekend as the sweltering heat gave birth to a rare “tsunami roll,” or ...
JAKARTA: Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto has ruled that four contested islands off the northwestern coast of Sumatra belong to Aceh, putting an end to the province’s long-running dispute ...
The tsunami might be the result of some vertical movement along the fault, Gombert says. But he finds it unlikely this could entirely explain such high waves, which were reported to stand as tall ...
FIRST RESPONSE: Police Commissioner Mike Bush (second from right), pictured at Wat Yan Yao Mortuary, was the first New Zealand police officer to respond to the disaster.Ten One / None Ten years ...
Japan's Meteorological Agency says Japanese coasts will not see any tsunami from a large volcanic eruption in Indonesia. The agency made the statement at 4 a.m. on Wednesday. It said no noticeable ...
A single father has been fined £80 after he removed his son from school to mark the 20th anniversary of a tsunami that killed his two brothers. Jack Coop, who was 16 when his siblings perished in ...