Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...

Subduction zones like the Andaman-Sumatra region are becoming significant as they provide clues to earthquake generation. The discovery of slow slips — tectonic faults that move many orders of ...

December 26, 2024 marks the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, triggered by the 9.1 magnitude Sumatra-Andaman earthquake that killed 2,28,000 people, including over 10,000 in India ...

The 9.1-magnitude event, known scientifically as the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, killed an estimated 226,408 people according to EM-DAT, a recognized global disaster database. Waves as high as 30 ...

I remember that at the time of the superflare some pseudoscience crackpots speculated that it caused the massive Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and subsequent tsunami—an entirely terrestrial ...

On December 26, 2004, a powerful earthquake off the coast of Aceh in Indonesia triggered a series of waves that inundated coastal communities and killed 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, ...

Along Thailand’s Andaman coast, at least 5,400 people ... that there’s an earthquake in Sumatra, everyone will be spooked,” he said. About once a year, a siren blares off in a tsunami ...

Farther from the mainland, the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands ... At 7:58 AM local time, a colossal undersea earthquake struck off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

On Dec. 26, 2004, one of the largest recorded earthquakes struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, heaving a piece ... the tsunami wreaked havoc in the Andaman Islands, hours before striking ...

When the earthquake struck at 06:30 (01:00 GMT), I was on a ferry, headed towards Havelock – an island in the Indian archipelago of Andaman and ... coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian ...