The system wasn't working when a tsunami struck Sunday, killing hundreds. Tsunamis have devastated the shorelines of Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries before, but the subsequent deaths and ...

Thanks to the GITEWS early warning system developed under the leadership of the GFZ from 2005 to 2008, it is now not only the Indian Ocean that is better prepared for such natural hazards. The ...

The government has ended the search for bodies, and desperate family members are not ready. “If God could give me just one,” one man said, “it would be enough.” By Ben C. Solomon The twin natural ...