Tsunami Experience Prepares Alaska Town for Next One
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Nearly 41 years ago, Alaskan Doug  McCrae was clinging to a roof with his family as huge waves of  debris-choked water slammed into Seward and other coastal  Alaska towns after a magnitude 9.2 earthquake shook nearby  Prince William Sound.
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Survivors from the gargantuan tsunami that swept across Asia will face a host of new threats in the coming days and weeks: viruses and bacteria in the water, diseases seeping from human remains, and the vulnerability to bugs and other predators that comes from having no shelter.
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A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Alaska's Aleutian islands on Wednesday and briefly sparked a tsunami warning in some Alaskan coastal areas which was later retracted, officials said.
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Stunning pictures just in from Asia show one of nature&#39;s most-feared acts: a tsunami crashing into a beach on Thailand&#39;s Phuket Island.
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Witness accounts after huge waves triggered by an earthquake devastated Asia.
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The Russian town of Beslan - scene of a bloody school siege last year - pledges aid for tsunami victims.
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One of the most powerful earthquakes in history Sunday triggered a tsunami that swept across thousands of miles of shoreline in southern Asia, swamping fishing villages in India and Sri Lanka as well tourist resorts in Thailand and the Maldives, and
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A U.S.-led team of geologists says a phenomena known as sediment folding may have added to the exceptionally large 2004 tsunami that struck Sumatra.
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Standing in the hangar bay of this mammoth aircraft carrier, Seaman Joviena Kay looks across the waves toward the devastated coast of Sumatra, remembering a time 13 years ago when she huddled on the same deck with evacuees from another great Asian disaster.
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MEULABOH, Indonesia -- A week after an earthquake and tsunami ripped through this city, a woman picks her way over a mountain of debris searching for something to feed her chicken. A man carries a salvaged carpet on his back. People sweep flooded foyers, just a few yards away from where a dead man wrapped in aluminum siding lies by ...
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The BBC's Andrew North witnesses the destruction wrought by the tsunami in the remote Indonesian town of Meulaboh.
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Most of the resorts hit by the tsunami are back in business. Now all they need is for tourists to return
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The Indonesian province of Banda Aceh was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake that sparked the devastating tsunami. Reuters.
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When the first waves rolled in, A.D. Chandaratna was mending a fishing net on the beach in front of the single-story  house he shares with his wife and four children. Fearing for their safety, he did the sensible thing and evacuated them to higher ground. Then he committed what could have been a fatal mistake: He went back to take a second look.
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An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 jolted Alaska's Aleutian Islands in the northern Pacific on Wednesday, Japan's weather agency said, triggering a tsunami advisory for Hawaii.
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The first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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Sea erosion brings an urgency to archaeologists' work, as bodies emerge on the shoreline of northern Alaska.