At the time this post was last updated,the estimated death toll from the South Asian tsunami exceeded 120,000. First things, first. If you want to give money for food, medical care and other basic ...

THE conflict between Iran and Israel may seem distant from Tanzania. It is taking place thousands of kilometres away, ...

Twenty-one years after the 2004 tsunami almost wiped out Ban Nam Khem, the small fishing village is coping with changing geological, demographic and employment woes while struggling to keep its way of ...

In June 2001, I spent two weeks in southern Peru as part of an International Tsunami Survey Team (ITST). A magnitude 8.4 earthquake occurred two weeks before we arrived, and our purpose was to learn ...

PORTLAND -- The tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in about 600 years, and it has lessons for the Pacific Northwest, geologists said Wednesday. Geologists ...

Mar. 11—March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the historic Japanese earthquake and tsunami, which are still sending ripples across the Pacific in the form of heightened awareness and initiatives to ...

Horrified by the devastation wrought by the tsunamis in South Asia, donors in the United States poured more than $300-million into the coffers of relief charities. With television news showing the ...

While government and relief agencies around the world continue to funnel humanitarian aid to the victims of the Asian tsunami, multinational businesses are scrambling to assess their exposure to ...

One struck near the roof of the world, the other at the bottom of the sea, but an unprecedented aid effort after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami has lessons for Pakistan's catastrophe, aid ...

(AP) — The effort to help Haiti recover from its devastating earthquake can draw on lessons learned in other large-scale tragedies, particularly the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least ...

The tsunami that rippled across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday may have been a good test run for the Pacific Northwest’s emergency alert systems, but it’s not yet clear how useful the experience will ...