Thousands flee false tsunami alarms in Asia
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As the number of confirmed deaths tops 112,0000, thousands of tsunami survivors in India, Sri Lanka and Thailand fled coastal regions yet again Thursday after officials warned of a new tsunami.
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Fishermen who saw much of their seasonal fishing village swept away by the Indian Ocean tsunamis said they were too scared to return to sea, fearing a repeat of the deadly disaster.
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A TSUNAMI warning that could have saved thousands of lives was issued but not acted upon more than an hour before giant waves hit Sri Lanka and southern India.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared above 125,000 on Friday as millions struggled to find  food and clean water and the world mobilized for what is  shaping up to be the biggest relief effort in history.
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A telephoned warning of a suspicious device forced the evacuation of a North Sea oil rig off Scotland on Sunday but it turned out to be a false alarm, emergency services said.
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India put coastal states and islands on alert against a ``possible&#39;&#39; repeat tsunami and asked people in low-lying areas to move to safer ground, after giant waves on Dec. 26 left more than 7,300 residents dead.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (27/12/04) - Some 14â000 people have been reportedly killed, many more missing and over a million displaced in south and southeast Asia after a powerful earthquake triggered off giant tidal waves or Tsunami slammed the coastal areas
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Aid agencies around the world rushed  staff, equipment and money to southern Asia where hundreds of  thousands of people were forced to flee after tsunamis pummeled  coastal communities on Sunday.
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Thousands of lives could have been spared if warnings had alerted civilians to head inland after a huge undersea earthquake in Indonesia, Asian officials said Monday.
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AFTERSHOCKS and fears of renewed tidal waves continued to terrorise residents of South and South-east Asia yesterday as millions searched for loved ones and buried their dead after Sunday&#39;s massive quake and tsunamis.
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A huge earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Sunday, setting off tsunami tidal waves that killed more than 150 people in Sri Lanka, sent residents rushing to high ground in Indonesia and washed into the Indian city of Chennai and the Thai tourist island of Phuket.
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Tens of thousands of Indians fled in terror from coastal areas devastated by killer tsunamis after the authorities sounded a new alert which a minister later admitted had been ill-judged.
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MORE than 11,800 people have been killed and tens of thousands left homeless after a massive undersea earthquake triggered giant tsunami waves across Asia.
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A gargantuan earthquake centered off the west coast of Indonesia unleashed a series of tidal waves Sunday morning that crashed into coastal towns, fishing villages and tourist resorts from India and Sri Lanka to Thailand and Malaysia, killing at least 3,000 people and leaving many more missing.
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More than 9,300 people across Asia were killed today after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into coastlines in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.
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Angry residents in Indonesia's Aceh disable a tsunami siren after a false alarm causes panic.
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.