A massive undersea earthquake near Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings across the Pacific, affecting ...

In 2005, the Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (ICG/IOTWMS) was established, encompassing 27 member states bordering the Indian Ocean ...

ISRO Research Could Aid Tsunami Warning SystemScientists with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have combined satellite data with various ocean circulation and wave propagation models ...

"The Indian Ocean region is much safer against the tsunami threat than it was in 2004," said Srinivasa Tummala, head of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS) established ...

However, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, or the Boxing Day Tsunami, which killed 230,000 people, highlighted the need for tsunami warning systems elsewhere and changed the way they work.

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2011 Japan tsunami were two of the most ruinous natural disasters in recent history, claiming over 230,000 lives across 14 countries in the former, and more ...

The Indian Ocean lacks a system of earthquake detection, though there are charts that can predict when and where tsunamis will hit after an earthquake. Many deaths might have been prevented with ...

The United Nations said a fledgling Indian Ocean tsunami warning system helped spread the alarm. John Harding of the U.N. International Strategy for Disaster Reduction said many governments had ...