Indonesia's North Sumatra and Aceh provinces have been embroiled in a dispute over the control of four islands, but a video ...

Abrupt earthquake-triggered land changes are not a new idea. The earliest written accounts of great earthquakes causing the land to rise or fall are from China and date back to nearly 4,000 years ago.

A 9.1-magnitude earthquake and tsunami off the west coast of northern Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, killed more than 283,000 people and displaced over 1 million more across 10 countries in Asia and ...

October 25, 2010 – At least 503 people die due to a magnitude 7.7 earthquake off Indonesia and a subsequent tsunami. February 21, 2011 – A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New ...

The Boxing Day Sumatra earthquake and tsunami 20 years ago helps serve as a stark reminder of the need for this region’s earthquake and tsunami readiness as a community. Ted Buehner is the KIRO ...

The Boxing Day Sumatra earthquake and tsunami 20 years ago helps serve as a stark reminder of the need for this region’s earthquake and tsunami readiness as a community. Ted Buehner is the KIRO ...

Just before 8am local time on December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.2 to 9.3 earthquake struck off the west coast of the Indonesian province of Aceh in northern Sumatra.

No tsunami potential is recorded due to this earthquake. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) recorded a 5.3-magnitude earthquake jolting the southwestern ...

On December 26, a massive earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale strikes off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that kills more than 230,000 throughout the region, including 170,000 ...

A 9.15 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra on Dec. 26, 2004, triggered a tsunami that barrelled into Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka and many other countries in the region, killing at least ...

Oct. 8, 2005: A magnitude 7.6 earthquake kills over 80,000 people in Pakistan’s Kashmir region. March 28, 2005: A magnitude 8.6 quake in northern Sumatra in Indonesia kills about 1,300 people.

Some of the world's most deadly earthquakes in the past two decades are listed below, after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday and killed hundreds of people.