Find the complete program transcript, including credits for the NOVA program Wave That Shook the World, originally broadcast on PBS on March 29, 2005.

When the Indian Ocean tsunami struck Sumatra on the morning of Dec. 26, the wave the big one must have been astounding. But viewers will not find photographic proof of that in "Wave That Shook the ...

The tsunami ravaged Sumatra's Banda Aceh only a half hour after the quake, and any tsunamis generated by quakes off the Aleutian islands could hit nearby Alaskan communities within 15 minutes.

The Earth’s crust is made of rock that is very hard and brittle at the small scale and near the surface. But over very large areas and depths, it can deform with slightly elastic behaviour. As the ...

The quake created the Indian Ocean's first wave of its kind in more than a century, and it moved the entire island of Sumatra 100 feet.

Mind-boggling is how Vasily Titov described the magnitude 9.1 scale earthquake that hit the coast of Sumatra after Christmas.

Parts of the Indonesia's Sumatra island remain in danger from a tsunami following a series of powerful earthquakes off the Indonesian coast on Wednesday, but damage across the Indian Ocean basin ...