How did everyone get caught completely unaware by the Dec. 2018 tsunami in Indonesia? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

A Facebook post shows a video of a tsunami hitting a coastal city and appearing to either destroy or completely submerge beachside buildings. The video then shows flood water traveling through another ...

On late Saturday night, a deadly tsunami struck the Indonesian coastline unexpectedly and — unusually — without having been triggered by a prior earthquake. As of Monday, at least 373 people have died ...

SUMUR, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on the tsunami that hit parts of Indonesia (all times local): 1:30 p.m. The death toll from the tsunami that hit Indonesian islands without warning Saturday night ...

The eruption of Anak Krakatoa in 2018 produced a tsunami that, for a short while, was somewhere between 330 to 492 feet tall, according to new research. Had the Indonesian shoreline been closer to the ...

TANJUNG LESUNG, Indonesia -- Efforts to collect hundreds of bodies and save the injured were stepped up Monday in Indonesia after Saturday's tsunami, as scientists gathered evidence to determine how a ...

A new study presents the detailed observation of a tsunami-generating volcano collapse by remote sensing. The study analyzes the 2018 collapse of Anak Krakatau, which triggered a tsunami that claimed ...

SUMUR, Indonesia — Panicked residents, police and soldiers in this remote fishing village clobbered by a devastating weekend tsunami ran to higher ground Tuesday, shouting “Water is coming! Water is ...

A tsunami that killed more than 400 people in Indonesia has left the last remaining population of Javan rhinos unscathed. The species’ last habitat, Ujung Kulon National Park, was hit by the Dec. 22 ...

A devastating tsunami took Indonesians by surprise because an early warning system – designed to detect changes in wave height in coastal areas near an active volcano – hasn't worked since 2012, ...

Rescue crews are helping thousands of people who were injured or displaced after a tsunami struck the coasts of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia on Saturday night. Many residents did not receive any ...

(Reuters Health) - If a coastal city's seawall is higher than a forecast tsunami, residents are less likely to evacuate promptly, suggests a new study based on interviews with survivors of the 2011 ...