Indonesia is a vast archipelago ... A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. The worst affected area was northern ...

"The tsunami... dragged cars, logs, houses," Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster agency, told Reuters news agency. "It hit everything on land." Some people survived by ...

Fly over the cities of Indonesia that were transformed by the 2004 tsunami with this reflective drone footage, 20 years later ...

This week marks 20 years since one of the worst natural disasters in modern history. In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the ...

Also leading an official fightback against hoaxes and fake news content following the tsunami disaster is Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, national spokesman at Indonesia's BNPB disaster agency. Despite ...

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s eastern province of Aceh on the evening of January 31, according to the country’s Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and ...

Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami ... flowing into Indonesia for relief and reconstruction. Zahrol said the commemoration reinforced the importance of disaster mitigation ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A tsunami killed at least 222 people on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra and injured hundreds following an underwater landslide caused by a volcanic eruption, the ...

The Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history, killing 230,000 people across a dozen countries. Indonesia's Aceh province bore the brunt of the ...

20 years on from the Boxing Day tsunami, The Impossible Show: Tsunami Relief Concert tells the extraordinary ...

In Indonesia's Aceh Province where ... A total of 226,408 people died as a result of the tsunami, according to EM-DAT, a recognised global disaster database. There was no warning of the impending ...

Within 20 minutes, waves of water began to hit the coasts of surrounding islands. In Indonesia's Aceh province in Northern ...