The Great Wave: Behind the tragedy, a boon for scientists
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The December 26 tsunami devastated lives around the Indian Ocean's coastline but, for science at least, there was a silver lining.
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The tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives across the Indian Ocean are the deadliest great waves in more than a century and probably in modern history.
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Tsunami-like waves created by an earthquake may have triggered the world's largest known hydrothermal explosion some 13,000 years ago, a federal scientist says.
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The northern end of the Bay of Bengal could be at risk of giant earthquakes and tsunamis in the coming decades, scientists say.
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HAMBURG (Der Spiegel) - Scientists here recently simulated the sinking of the Estonia, the 1994 Baltic Sea ferry disaster that killed 852 people. The bottom line: Scientific evidence shows that the vessel was traveling much too fast in stormy seas and that the crew's attempts to save the ship by turning it actually caused it to capsize...
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Islanders on tiny Tuvalu in the South Pacific last week saw the future of global warming and rising sea levels, as extreme high tides caused waves to crash over crumbling sea-walls and flood their homes.
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One of the most powerful earthquakes in decades sent massive tsunami waves throughout the Indian Ocean, killing at least 15,000 in places ranging from Sri Lanka to Thailand.
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For scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, the world's most powerful earthquake happened below the wrong ocean.
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Researchers are hoping to develop a network of ocean-floor and mobile sensors that would help detect tsunamis in the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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How a massive earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered sea surges and the deaths of thousands of people.
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Dr. Harindra Joseph S. Fernando study the human activities that make a natural disaster even more deadly.
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The Indian Ocean earthquake of December 2004 produced     a shockwave that created tsunamis all across the Indian Ocean. The tsunamis hammered nearby Indonesia and struck as far as     the coast of East Africa. The death toll has climbed over 100,000 and continues to grow.    It also created social shockwaves.
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IT COULD HAPPEN HERE: Tsunami scientists and public safety officials say the West Coast could experience a calamity similar to the one in southern Asia.
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The tragedy of the tsunami's child victims
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PARIS - The giant, deadly waves of seawater that crashed through coastal towns in Asia and parts of east Africa last weekend are commonly called tidal waves, but that term is not strictly correct, say scientists, who prefer the word tsunami.
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A computer model that can predict the impact of a tsunami from the San Francisco Bay area to Alaska is helping scientists plot danger zones in coastal cities to guide emergency planning.
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The northern tip of the Bay of Bengal, home to tens of millions of people, faces a potential double whammy from an earthquake and tsunami, a scientist warned on Wednesday.