20 Years Ago a Tsunami Killed 230,000 People. We Can Do Better Now.
With better technology, we could further shorten the time between an earthquake and when the tsunami warning goes out.
Boxing Day tsunami: here’s what we have learned in the 20 years since the deadliest natural disaster in modern history
On Boxing Day 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia set off a tsunami which killed almost 250,000 people. It ...
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Fishermen pay tribute to tsunami victims in Thoothukudi, Kanniyakumari districts
A massive undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered one of the most dangerous tsunamis on December 26, 2004. The impact of the tsunami devastated the eastern coastal areas of India ...
Destructive waves keep thrashing Santa Cruz: ‘Mother Nature holds the cards’
Strong storms have pounded Santa Cruz in recent years, most notably collapsing a chunk of its wharf this week. Is it just bad ...
'I had a life to live': Survivors recall tsunami 20 years later
It has been 20 years since the deadliest tsunami ever recorded, one that devastated communities around the Indian ocean and ...
'The tsunami wave came in and just took her'
"The wave came in and just took her, it just took her away." On Boxing Day 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake triggered a ...
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Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years on: Improved warning systems but better forecasting still needed
Two decades after the deadly waves in the Indian Ocean, our ability to forecast and warn of future dangerous tsunamis has grown. However, the economic and wider human cost of such natural catastrophes ...
Earthquake-prone Indonesia considers nuclear power plan as 29 possible plant sites revealed
One of Australia's closest neighbours proposes 29 locations for nuclear power plants across the archipelago, but critics say ...
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'I saw everything was destroyed': Memories still incredibly raw 20 years after Boxing Day tsunami
"I knew instinctively something was wrong and it was dangerous," he tells me as he stares forlornly out to sea. "But I didn't know what a tsunami was. The more I moved, the more the wave went ...
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Because the ABC Emergency Alerts system relies entirely on information published by emergency agencies, despite the best efforts of those agencies, the ABC cannot guarantee that this information will ...