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Clare Allen said the 2004 tsunami dramatically changed her life [BBC] A woman who survived the Boxing Day tsunami 20 years ago said the disaster has given her an "extraordinary purpose" in life.
A woman enjoys the Lampuuk beach in Aceh Besar, Indonesia, on Dec. 24, 2024, ahead of the 20-year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that struck the city on December 26, 2004.
Read more:7.0 earthquake rattles Northern California, spurs anxiety before tsunami warning is canceled “There’s only two ways for us to know a tsunami is occurring: We have the deep ocean ...
More than 225,000 people were killed in the tsunami and earthquake across 14 countries, including 30,000 in Sri Lanka alone. Ms Naqvi was eventually airlifted to Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital ...
Large tsunamis have occurred in the US and will again. A magnitude 9.2 earthquake in the Gulf of Alaska caused damage and loss of life along the West Coast in 1964. More than 150 tsunamis have ...
Should a similar earthquake happen today, scientists say a giant tsunami would wash away coastal towns, destroy U.S. 101 and cause $70 billion in damage over a large swath of the Pacific Coast.
Coastal and rural communities in Somalia, as far as 4,500 km (2,800 mi) from the epicentre of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, were swept away or destroyed by the resulting tsunami on 26 December 2004. As of 5 January 2005, the confirmed death toll stood at 298.
An earthquake ruptured off California on Thursday morning, briefly triggering a tsunami warning for the coast of Northern California and southern Oregon. The earthquake, a magnitude-7.0 temblor ...