What will it take to be ready for the next major tsunami? One of the most wrenching signs of the lack of readiness for the tsunami in the Indian Ocean was ... a series of tide gauges that sent ...

After 1966, the mega-quake pipeline shut down for nearly 40 years, producing a number of earthquakes in the low ... Indian Ocean since 2004. PTWC was given the temporary responsibility of issuing ...

The resulting tsunami struck nations in the Indian Ocean including Thailand and Sri Lanka and reached as far as Africa, killing an estimated 220,000-plus people, including about 40 Japanese.

Show more In 2004 a massive earthquake under the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami. The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, on the island of Sumatra, was closest to the epicentre, and was devastated by ...