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Some people on Indonesia’s Simeulue island relied on folklore to escape the 2004 tsunamiThe majority of deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were in Indonesia. But the island of Simeulue was largely spared.
Some 1.7 million people were displaced, mostly in the four worst-affected countries, but Indonesia recorded the most deaths at over 170,000. open image in gallery India women offer tributes in ...
Tsunami and earthquake data still isn’t shared widely around the world. Local authorities and experts often don’t communicate ...
The city of Banda Aceh in Sumatra, western Indonesia, was the first coast met ... the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing Day of 2004. The effects of the 9.3 Richter scale ...
The Boxing Day tsunami interrupted a civil war ... rotation and left almost a quarter of a million people dead. Sumatra, Indonesia. "I saw this huge, black, 40-foot wave coming and instantly ...
The death toll for Indonesia’s Aceh province is generally ... 30 years earlier in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, brought out the best in the world; when confronted ...
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India to mark 20 years since 228,000 people were killed in one of the worst natural disasters in modern ...
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