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I received a call from a scientist friend in Port Blair early November this year. As soon as I picked up my phone, he asked me a question he had asked me dozens of...
made popular Dec 26 2008
AP, Banda Aceh
From India to Indonesia, communal prayers, shared meals and candlelight vigils were held Friday to honor victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
made popular Dec 26 2008
AP, Pettiyadichcheni
Every morning and evening, Velmurugu Kangasuriyam gathers his 2 1/2 year-old daughter and his wife and confronts the wreckage of his former life.
made popular Dec 25 2008
Since time and ages the number 13 has proven to be unlucky around the world for some reason,but now it seems that its place of being unlucky would be replaced.It would...
made popular Nov 30 2008
AP, Canberra
Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a national monitoring center...
made popular Oct 31 2008
AP, New York
The tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 2004 was the biggest in the Indian Ocean in some 600 years, two new geological studies suggest.
made popular Oct 29 2008
When you visit Sri Lanka, you are pretty much touring a war zone. At least that’s the impression that some tourists like Mian Ridge get. As you sip your drink,...
made popular Sep 10 2008
since the time Adam and Eve was punished to come to earth from heaven human life has taken a drastic turnaround.From being nude to wearing clothes and then again at the...
made popular Aug 30 2008
The world has seen some major disasters over last few weeks. First was the cyclone Nargis in Myanmar (I don’t really know why do they come up with sweet feminine...
made popular May 17 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...
made popular May 13 2008
AP, Honolulu
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday the last two tsunami detection buoys have been placed, completing the U.S. tsunami warning network.The...
made popular Mar 11 2008
Three years back, the Indian Ocean countries had experienced the massive tsunami, the horrible waves of the earthquake-triggered walls of seawater. It was one of the...
made popular Dec 27 2007
AP, Lhoknga
An army of workers rebuilds a cement plant once strewn with dead bodies. A four-lane highway slowly takes shape along a coast shattered by giant waves. Roof tiles on...
made popular Dec 25 2007
In the techno-hub of the world, Tokyo externalize is taking place which projects to apprehend into the Earth’s surface than ever before. This project, within two...
made popular Nov 23 2007
According to the report, a UN agency, that works to eliminate poverty and hunger from rural parts across the world, has said that it has granted the additional...
made popular Nov 3 2007
Everybody in the nation remembers the devastating Tsunami that damaged coastal cities and habitations in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and other South-East Asian...
made popular Oct 16 2007
AP, Hyderabad
India on Monday inaugurated a $32 million tsunami early warning center, which can alert people living along the coast within 13 minutes of getting data from seismic...
made popular Oct 15 2007
AP, Corvallis
A giant tsunami struck Seaside, Ore. this week _ at least, a model version of the town, built by researchers at Oregon State University to demonstrate the potentially...
made popular Sep 14 2007
Indonesia was shocked, rocked and quaked again, with an earthquake that devastated interior and coastal parts of the country, bringing with it the memories of...
made popular Sep 14 2007
A more devastating tsunami than that of 2004 is ready to rock Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean any moment, risking tens of millions of lives.
The wounds of the...
made popular Sep 6 2007
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26 December 2004 — It is the dreadful day when the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami swept across coastlines sweeping along with it, more than 200 000 lives. Since then...
made popular Dec 28 2005
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