Indonesia continues to strengthen its early warning system due to its high vulnerability to earthquakes. In a webinar ...

The earthquake which rocked Padang, western Sumatra in September last year killing more than 1000 people was not the 'great earthquake' which earth scientists are waiting for.

head of the BMKG’s Earthquake and Tsunami Centre, said in his post on X in August, about the two megathrusts in Sumatra and Java. Like many Indonesians, Mr Daryano goes by one name.

Food is proving a unifying force between the native inhabitants of a struggling port town in Japan's northeast and the ...

She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest potential to be hit by megathrust earthquakes. Four of Indonesia's five big islands, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua ...

After the 2004 tsunami, mangroves in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are still changing. A mass mortality of mangroves was ...

MSPs invited constituents from their area for making an extraordinary contribution and Gary joined other local heroes from ...

The devastating magnitude-9.1 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami in December 2004 shook the planet for 18 days. And it’s thought that the Chicxulub asteroid, which ended the reign of the ...

The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. Some 230,000 people died as ...

All earthquakes do not cause tsunamis ... towns and villages along the Sunda Strait in both the islands of Java and Sumatra, killing 36,417 people. Tsunamis caused by extraterrestrial collision ...

Before moving to Seoul in 2018, he traveled to the region to cover major stories including the North Korean nuclear crisis and the Fukushima earthquake ... Borneo and Sumatra, and witnessed ...

The dip of this return path is revealed by the location of earthquake foci on a surface ... the Alaska Peninsula–Aleutian arc and the Sumatra–Java arc all have radii of about 20°, or about ...