Twenty years after an Indian Ocean tsunami killed thousands, Riley Kehoe recalls the terror she felt as a girl facing a ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern Sumatra, waves reached 167 feet and caused floods for three miles. Following ...

typically used for waves in shallow water. Runup: The maximum vertical height that a wave reaches onshore during an event such as a tsunami. N-wave: A type of wave characterized by a sharp peak ...

The 2004 tsunami was the first time Shelterbox had sent its own teams out to a disaster zone [Shelterbox] Mr Poole said he and his partner managed to get out of the water after scrambling onto a ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was awoken by "screaming and shouting ... He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window ...

A survivor of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami has recalled the moment he was ... He said all he could see was "white water and chaos". "I leapt out of bed to the window to see a great wall of white ...

Two New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical water supplies for the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami and largely cut off from the ...

ISHINOMAKI, Miyagi Prefecture—A school building here that was destroyed in a water-fire combination during the 2011 tsunami has been rebuilt into a disaster memorial. The former Kadonowaki ...