For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A claim has been circulating on social media suggesting that the devastating 2004 tsunami that wrecked the Indian Ocean was not caused by a natural earthquake, but because of a ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A moderate 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Seram, Indonesia, at 7.50am on Saturday (Jan 16). ALSO READ: Magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes off Indonesia's Talaud Islands, German Research ...

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit eastern Indonesia late Saturday, but with no casualties reported as yet or a tsunami warning issued, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake struck 244 ...

The devastating natural disaster, which was kickstarted by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killed an estimated 290,000 people across 14 countries – including 19 ...

Sri Lanka on Friday (December 26, 2025) commemorated the 21st anniversary of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, which killed over 35,000 people in the island nation. The national ceremony ...

As Hamdaniyah Surbakti, a 62-year-old resident of Aceh province, began to pick up the pieces of her house that was destroyed by last month’s severe floods, she inevitably thought about the 2004 ...

The environment is not collateral damage. It is a new frontline of hybrid warfare, and defending it is quite literally defending life itself,” — Ruslan Spirin, a Ukrainian diplomat based in Kyiv.[i] ...

The number of people killed by flash floods after Cyclone Senyar made landfall over Sumatra on Nov. 26 increased to 1,059 on Dec. 18. In Pidie Jaya district, on the north coast of the semi-autonomous ...

Indonesia is confronting its deadliest natural disaster in more than two decades as floods and landslides ravage Sumatra, overwhelming local authorities and prompting scrutiny of how President Prabowo ...

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