Day: December 26, 2024

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia’s Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the area two decades ago.It is one of several prayer sites across western Indonesia — including a grand mosque and other mass graves — holding ceremonies that drew thousands of mourners who remember the December 26, 2004, tsunami.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.

The waves, which towered as high as 30 metres, killed more than 220,000 people in 15 countries in the deadliest tsunami in history

Duncan Ridgley says “it was like going through five Viking battles in a day”.

An overnight curfew was imposed by Syria’s ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel group after 14 members of the Syria’s interior ministry were killed in what they described as an ambush by supporters of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.

A look back at the horrible loss of life.

Christmas Day attacks on Ukraine.

Experts said they were “blind” to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.