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Tsunamis

December 2024

  • A mourner in a headscarf scatters flower petals at the Ulee Lheue mass grave

    Ceremonies held across Asia to mark 20 years since Boxing Day tsunami

  • Mahyuddin and Ema Listyana

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Indian Ocean tsunami: how survivors found love after Boxing Day disaster

  • Joe Giardina holds a photo of his son Paul

    ‘You learn to live with the pain’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, Australian couple remember son Paul

  • Abdul Rahem with his boat in the Aceh province, Indonesia

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘If we die, we die together’: 20 years after the Boxing Day tsunami, are we better prepared?

  • What is the real toll of natural and climate disasters? Science has staggering new answers

    Devi Sridhar

  • Magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattles northern California

November 2024

  • Water and debris surround around a mosque

    ‘If you survive this, you somehow must share it’: reliving the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

  • Survivors walk across the debris filling the streets in the aftermath of the tsunami in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

    TV review
    Tsunami: Race Against Time review – a gripping, moving look at the worst natural disaster of our lifetimes

September 2024

  • A screenshot showing the Bureau of Meteorology's (BoM) test for Australia's tsunami early warning alert system.

    Australians sent into panic as authorities issue tsunami warning – then say it was just a test

  • Aerial view of fjord before and after landslide and tsunami

    Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami

August 2024

  • Huge stranded icebergs at the mouth of the Icejord near Ilulissat at midnight, Greenland

    Terrawatch
    Megatsunami risk on the rise as glacial melt drives landslides

  • a group of schoolchildren wearing orange hats crouch on the ground in front of a statue while their teachers stand over them

    Earthquake strikes off Japan’s coast and triggers tsunami warning

April 2024

  • Mount Ruang eruption in Indonesia sparks tsunami fear as hundreds evacuate – video

  • A damaged building in Hualien, after a major earthquake hit Taiwan's east.

    Taiwan earthquake: nine dead and 900 injured as buildings collapse

January 2024

  • Parts of Japan have been destroyed after an earthquake and tsunami hit the region

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    Aerial footage shows destruction in Japan after earthquake – video

  • A burnt-down residential and commercial area site in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, following the earthquake which reportedly left 24 dead.

    Japan earthquakes: ‘battle against time’ to find those trapped under rubble as death toll rises

  • Badly damaged buildings along a street in the city of Wajima

    Japan orders people to evacuate after 7.6-magnitude quake hits west coast

  • Tsunami warnings issued in Ishikawa, Niigata and Toyama prefectures after series of earthquakes hit country’s central west coast

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    Strong earthquakes hit Japan's west coast – video

May 2023

  • The New Caledonian capital, Noumea

    Pacific islands warned of possible small tsunamis after earthquake near New Caledonia

    Chance of waves up to 1 metre in Vanuatu, while under 30cm likely in 25 island groups including Tonga and Tuvalu, US authorities say

November 2022

  • Composite of a frog rom Panama, a close-up of coral in the sea, a farmer hand-pollinating pear trees in China, ants and an Indian white-rumped vulture

    The age of extinction
    What happens when humans meddle with nature?

    Seven ways in which our destruction of the natural world has led to deadly outcomes
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