The Greek island of Santorini is facing a crisis after a powerful 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Wednesday evening. This ...

The tsunami -- generated by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra -- carried in its path a wall of debris including boats, cars, and bodies. Some, like lecturer Reza ...

Israel, with its nearly 200-kilometer Mediterranean coastline already fitted with tsunami warning signs, is on high alert.

Communal graves should be clearly marked, with bodies well organised and buried ... The South Asian tsunami in 2004 was an extreme natural event resulting in many thousands of fatalities.

By next day morning we were able to get some white clothes to prepare the bodies for burial. The Sippikulama Mosque premises had the first tsunami mass grave where my mother’s body and bodies of ...

The tsunami claimed the lives of over 8,000 people in Thailand, including many who remain missing, leaving a deep scar in the nation’s history. Nearly 400 bodies remain unclaimed. Mourners shed ...

For tsunami survivors, the sea can represent both ... A masked man moves to spray the dead bodies to kill the smell at a temple where some 600 bodies are piled up in Khao Lak, north of the ...

Some 230,000 people died as the tsunami leveled remote villages ... In Thailand, dozens of bodies are lined up at a Buddhist temple, and a young Swedish boy carries a sign listing family members ...

People want closure on the missing--and they want to retrieve bodies for proper funeral rites. THE TSUNAMI disaster in Thailand is quite different from the devastation wreaked in Sri Lanka or ...

and health risks from dead bodies. We used participant observations as members of post-tsunami response teams, conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants, and collected information ...