OnFriday, a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, just after 5:02 PM Western Indonesian Time. Dramatic videos revealed the eerie growth of a mounting wave in a
Animationof the 2004 tsunami propagation across the Indian Ocean, from Sumatra to Africa. Credit: Anthony Sladen, TO Although the 2005 quake was one tenth as powerful as the 2004 quake, it is still the fourth largest quake of the last 100 years, and many lives were lost. A third major quake followed two and a half years later.
Onthis day in 1815, Mount Tambora, seen here on April 10, 2020,by the Himawari-8 satellite produced the largest volcanic eruption ever recorded. Mount Tambora, located on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, is an active stratovolcano that was one of the tallest mountains in all of Indonesia before its eruption. After the event, its
Followinga major, 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province on Friday, the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said in a statement that he's "deeply saddened" by the "terrible loss of life" and injuries from the disaster. Four days after a deadly earthquake and tsunami hit the Indonesian
Date February 10, 1990 Event type: Volcanic Eruption
HiddenMagnitude-8.2 Earthquake Source of Mysterious 2021 Global Tsunami. Feb. 8, 2022 — Scientists have uncovered the source of a mysterious 2021 tsunami that sent waves around the globe. In
FormerSlovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova says the victory of a party promising to stop military support for Ukraine, in elections on September 30, might not result in fundamental change.
Atsunami as high as 34 meters could be triggered by an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 in and around Java and Sumatra islands, according to a report recently released by Indonesian researchers
10 Bait (2012) Well, if a tsunami wasn't enough, we've got great white sharks also in this one. After a horrific tsunami hits the coast of Queensland, Australia a group of people get trapped inside a supermarket with no way to contact the outside world.
A tsunami that happened 100 years ago is going to be much less dangerous than a tsunami that happens today." Editor's note: This story was originally published on December 27, 2021 and has been
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