The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck northeastern Japan early Saturday morning with strong shaking felt in Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, the weather agency said, but no tsunami ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck northeastern Japan early ... the weather agency said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The 4:10 a.m. quake measured ...

The event, which began at 9am, brought together Thais and foreigners with a solemn remembrance of those who perished in the tsunami, and the laying of white flowers to honour their loss.

Only 5 per cent originated in the Indian Ocean. The tsunami on December 26, 2004, quickly escalated into a global disaster. Across 17 countries, nearly a quarter million people died and 1.7 million ...

Nearly two decades later, tsunami survivors point to significant improvements in disaster preparedness. PHANG NGA, Thailand – On December 26th, 2004, a devastating tsunami struck Ban Nam Khem in ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has warned of tsunami amid a series ... magnitudes ranging between 1.8 and 5.0 as of last Sunday.

26, to mark two decades since the world’s largest tsunami. On Dec. 26, 2004, in one of the worst natural disasters of the modern era, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake spurred catastrophic waves that ...

The tsunami displaced more than 1.5 million people, and more than 100,000 houses were destroyed in Aceh alone, the Indonesian province nearest to the earthquake epicenter. The lack of tsunami ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia – Tearful mourners prayed on Dec 26 as ceremonies began across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami ... a 9.1-magnitude earthquake ...

The 9.1-magnitude quake generated massive waves that ... Japan through Southeast Asia and across the Pacific basin. The tsunami was triggered by the longest faultline rupture from an earthquake ...

It was a close shave with death for Gagandeep Singh Bedi on December 26, 2004, when the Indian Ocean tsunami struck Tamil Nadu. The Cuddalore District Collector was at Hotel Tamil Nadu on the sea ...