Tag Archives: tsunami

Saturday, 29 April 2017 JAKARTA: Indonesia’s meteorology and geophysics agency terminated a warning for tsunami in the province of North Sulawesi in central parts of the country after a 6.8-magnitude quake, an official of the agency said. “We have lifted the tsunami warning,” Iwan Kurniawan, an official of the agency …

Wednesday, 26 April 2017 Tokyo – Japan’s gaffe-prone disaster reconstruction minister resigned Wednesday after remarking it was lucky the catastrophic 2011 earthquake-tsunami had hit a largely rural region rather than Tokyo. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was forced to apologise to residents of the devastated northeastern region of Tohoku, which is …

Wednesday, 4 January 2017 Sydney – A shallow 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of damage and a tsunami warning was lifted. The quake hit at a depth of 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) some 221 kilometres from …

Tuesday, 27 December 2016 Banda Aceh: Thousands of Indonesians prayed for their loved ones at mass graves and mosques to mark a tsunami that devastated Aceh province 12 years ago yesterday, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history. Some 170,000 lives were lost in the country when …