Sumatra earthquake 2026: a magnitude 5.4 event off northern Sumatra put GEOFON earthquake detection to the test, identifying the quake in about 10 minutes -- within the same narrow window a megathrust ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Nations along the Indian Ocean are testing a U.N.-backed early tsunami warning system put in place after the massive 2004 wave off western Indonesia that left more than ...

tsunami of 2004 that killed 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean, including 170,000 in northern Indonesia alone. But luck may have helped avert disaster this time as much as the warning system, ...

PARIS Eighteen states around the Indian Ocean rim will next week stage the first region-wide test of a tsunami warning system aimed at saving thousands of lives, UNESCO said. Dubbed 'Exercise Indian ...

Though they may be rare, tsunamis are among the most devastating natural hazards. They know no coastal borders. Coastal communities – often concentrated in low-lying and highly populated areas – are ...

I spent the last week in Colorado at a meeting of the Tsunami Science and Technology Advisory Board (TSTAP). We are a small group tasked with providing recommendations to the NOAA administrator on how ...