Tsunami News

A strong earthquake was reported in the ocean off Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The quake measured a magnitude of 6.7, the survey reported.

The number of confirmed cases of dengue fever doubled in the month following the deadly Sept.

Big-hearted couple Colin and Rosemarie Bray have just returned from Sri Lanka after raising A 12,000 to build a new school.

A special memorial service is to be held in Auckland for those who lost their lives in the tsunami that devastated Samoa and Tonga in late September.

For the umpteenth time in cinema, Los Angeles is gleefully destroyed. A tidal wave takes out Washington, D.C., crushing the White House with the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John F. Kennedy.

Not all of the three U.S. major canneries are supportive of the American Samoa Protection of Industry, Resources and Employment bill.

Vehicles as tsunami traps highlighted by the debris piled up at more than 12m elevation at Poloa, American Samoa.

FERRY SUNK: The Princess Ashika was carrying around 180 people when it went down northeast of Nuku'alofa with the loss of 74 lives.

Federal officials say a 5.3 magnitude quake off the Oregon coast Wednesday morning did not generate a tsunami .

Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 5:23 pm Press Release: Kidsfirst Kindergartens Christchurch Kidsfirst Kindergartens teachers recently donated learning materials and toys to a container being sent to Samoan villages, where schools and homes have been destroyed by last month's tsunami.

Everyone knows something's going to happen Dec. 21, 2012. It's what that something is that's up for debate.

An average three to four of these floating hotels, each carrying about 3,000 passengers plus 1,000-crew, navigate through the Venetian lagoon and the city center every day.

Officials say a German working for the Red Cross has been shot by men on a motorcycle in Indonesia's Aceh province.

PHUKET CITY: On the next leg of its mission to bring books to readers around the globe, the world's oldest passenger liner will make its fifth port-of-call in Phuket later this month.

Not quite a tidal wave but something more than a ripple on the water, the Republican victories in the 2009 elections demonstrated that, despite the fondest wishes of many supposedly objective political analysts and pundits, the Grand Old Party is far from kaput.

President Obama was the first Democratic candidate for president to win Virginia since 1964, but that tidal wave of support didn't course into Tuesday's governor's race.

In last year's campaign, the one true thing Obama said to his critics was, "The political ground is changing under your feet." But what is not sufficiently recognized is that is going on again, right now, in the opposite direction.

If you want to destroy a hallowed Christian site on the big screen, that's OK. Just don't try doing the same thing to Islam.

Roland Emmerich is gearing up to destroy the world yet again in his epic film 2012 , which is based on the predictions of the Mayan calendar.

SUMMARY: California Congressman Michael Honda and a bipartisan coalition of co-sponsors last week introduced the Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer Control and Prevention Act of 2009, a measure intended to address the ongoing epidemics of hepatitis B and C. The bill -- which requests $90 million in funding -- would establish a comprehensive ...