Asian Tsunami Disaster News

Moscow, Nov 17 The world geological community is warning that today's seismic activity on our planet is nothing compared with what is to come.

Last month temblor measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook Sukabumi, West Java, on Monday at 4.12 am local time, according to the meteorological and geophysics agency .

A powerful earthquake struck waters off eastern Indonesia early Monday. An initial tsunami warning for coastlines within 600 miles of the epicenter was later lifted.

NAGAPATTINAM: Seawater entered the housing colony for tsunami victims at Pazhaiyar, near Sirkazhi, on Tuesday night, causing a mild scare.

MORE than a million mangrove saplings have been planted as part of the conservation programme of the coastal forests throughout the country since 2005.

INDONESIA launched a new high-tech tsunami warning system on Tuesday in a bid to prevent a repeat of tragedies like the 2004 Asian tsunami that killed around 170,000 people in the archipelago nation.

ALAPPUZHA: Leader of the Opposition Oommen Chandy has demanded that all tsunami-affected people in the State should immediately be given the benefits they are entitled to using tsunami rehabilitation funds.

Benefits cheat Brian Riley has been jailed for eight months after dishonestly claiming 30,000 pounds in benefits and using it to live a 'life of Riley' on a tropical island for more than three years.

Amid the gory scenes re-enacted in his dreams, the ABC correspondent Peter Lloyd was castigated nightly by an Australian killed in the 2002 Bali bombing.

Porayar, TN : Nagapattinam district administration has decided to make use of telemedicine services to provide psychological treatment to the tsunami-hit children.

MALE: The biggest obstacle to government proposed reconstruction and development programmes aimed at improving the quality of life of the 2004 tsunami victims is the Planning and National Development Ministry, ...

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TSUNAMI is a natural disaster that repeat as the cycle in due cource of time .Nature is playing their own game .We cant stop it we cant fight with it because we can not fight with nature ,we can only take ...

KARAIKAL: Along with rehabilitating tsunami victims, the houses built in Karaikalmedu village have also helped in the creation of livelihood for local artisans, officials at the handing-over ceremony said here ...

An article appearing in the last scientific journal Nature suggests the 2004 tsunami that killed a quarter million people has happened before and will happen again "There is a rich history of Tsunamis like the ...

United Nations, Oct 30: The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution calling on the US to end its 46-year-old economic embargo on Cuba, EFE reported Thursday.

The Maldives is made up of a chain of nearly 1,200 islands, most of them uninhabited, which lie off the Indian sub-continent. None of the coral islands measures more than 1.8 metres above sea level, making the ...

A mega-tsunami struck southeast Asia 700 years ago rivaling the deadly one in 2004, two teams of geologists said after finding sedimentary evidence in coastal marshes.

Six months after Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, key partners in the countrya TMs recovery process gathered in Bangkok to assess how to best strengthen their joint efforts to support inclusive and sustainable ...