In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods. The failure was not forecasting, but ...

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the ...

The tsunami was 60 centimeters (2 feet) high in deep water 2 hours after formation, and 24 meters (79 feet) when it reached ...

While climate disasters kill people and erase communities, developed countries are dragging their feet on funding relief for ...

The Seismological Society of America will present its highest honor, the 2026 Harry Fielding Reid Medal, to Peter Shearer, professor of geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of ...

By Aida Greenbury It was 27 December 2004. I was sitting at my computer in my office in Jakarta, Indonesia, my mind busy with plans for the New Year party I had organized with friends in the city, ...

Indonesia will add 21,000 forest police to curb illegal mining across nearly 297,000 hectares of forest, with just 105,017 ...

A traveller journeys across Southeast Asia to trace Suvarnabhumi, following ancient Indian sea routes through food, faith, ruins and forgotten empires.

JAKARTA, INDONESIA: A claim has been circulating on social media suggesting that the devastating 2004 tsunami that wrecked the Indian Ocean was not caused by a natural earthquake, but because of a ...

Four centuries on, scientists are still debating whether the catastrophic flood of 1607 was driven by a storm surge or a ...

For decades, researchers thought that an October 1843 earthquake on the small Greek island of Chalke caused a powerful ...

Aceh Regency recorded the highest displacement figures, with 33,261 individuals or 9,242 families seeking shelter across 210 ...