Last Updated: Saturday, March 14, 2015, 20:21
Japan will provide assistance amounting to USD 4 billion in the coming four years to reduce the number of disaster victims and their suffering around the world, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 17:09
One in four nursery school children caught up in Japan`s 2011 tsunami disaster has psychiatric problems, a government report said on Monday, with experts warning the effects could last a lifetime if left untreated.
Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 03:55
A shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck off the Solomon Islands early Friday, with seismologists putting its epicentre at just one km deep, but no immediate tsunami warning was issued.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 1, 2014, 23:51
A powerful 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday off the coast of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, but US geologists said it was too deep to cause a tsunami.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 19:25
Tamil Nadu on Thursday paid homage to the thousands of people who were swallowed up by the killer tsunami wave of Dec 26, 2004.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 26, 2013, 14:11
Nine years after the picturesque coastal town of Tarangambadi was battered by tsunami, which claimed more than 700 lives, the town has undergone a total transformation and emerged among the most searched travel destinations on the Internet.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 15, 2013, 15:37
Japan is incapable of safely decommissioning Fukushima nuclear plant alone and must stitch together international team for massive undertaking, but has made only halting progress in that direction.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 14, 2013, 14:44
Scientists have made an amazing discovery in the form a cave on the Indonesian island of Sumatra that holds a "beautiful and stunning" record of Indian Ocean tsunamis spanning over thousands of years.
Last Updated: Friday, December 6, 2013, 12:54
A team of researchers have shed light on what caused the devastating tsunami that struck Japan`s Tohoku region in March 2011.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 14:41
About a thousand traumatised survivors of the Philippines` deadliest typhoon fled their homes in one central province following false rumours of a tsunami, civil defence officials said today.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 1, 2013, 10:11
A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Indonesia today but there was no tsunami alert, seismologists said.
Last Updated: Monday, November 25, 2013, 16:07
A coastal site in Andhra Pradesh`s Srikakulam district, earmarked for locating imported nuclear power plants, is unsuitable from the safety point of view, cautions a leading tsunami expert.
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