Two hours after the 8.8 earthquake in Chile last night, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said that a tsunami had started. It hit parts of Chile and moved across the Pacific. The New Zealand Civil Defence and police moved quickly to send messages on...
After Wednesdays terrible tsunami which killed at least 150 people in Samoa, help is needed. The country needs helicopters to find bodies in the sea and needs people to identify those bodies. Help is needed to care for the injured. The survivors need...
VOA News March 11, 2011 - The first tsunami(海啸) waves have reached the U.S. West Coast after sweeping past the country's Pacific island state of Hawaii. There have been no immediate reports of casualties in the U.S. Waves of a meter or more hit t...
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Banda Aceh 23 December 2006 An Acehnese man works on building a new house in a village destroyed by the 2004 tsunami, in Banda Aceh, 10 Dec. 2006 Indonesia's devastated Aceh province is still struggling to rebuild two years a...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 December 2006 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says great progress has been made in helping hundreds of thousands of Indian Ocean tsunami victims recover from the disaster two years ago....
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 02 December 2006 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton wants disaster preparation in areas vulnerable to tsunamis to be stepped up, and called for faster work at sheltering thousands of people still homeless after the 2004 Indi...
By June Soh Gaithersburg, Maryland 24 August 2006 watch Libraries report Public libraries in some U.S. communities are expanding their services to accommodate their increasingly diverse clientele. The report is narrated by Amy Katz. ----- A group of...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta 02 August 2006 A new regional tsunami warning system in Southeast Asia can already detect dangerous conditions, but the network will not be completed for up to five years. The announcement comes just two weeks after a tsunam...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 08 March 2006 UN special Envoy for tsunami recovery Eric Schwartz, talked with a tsunami victim during his visit to Banda Aceh Province, Indonesia, February 23, 2006 A Unit...
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS – The Year in Science 2004: Tsunami / SARS / Bird Flu / H.I.V. and AIDS / The Little People of Flores / D... By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 (MUSIC) VOIC...
