Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...

The process of emptying the reservoirs at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was severely impacted by the 2011 tsunami, ...

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

BRITAIN isn't known as a tsunami hotspot – but it's been struck by giant and terrifying waves. The biggest that we know of saw a wall of water 70 feet high crashing into Britain's shores.

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 ...