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BANDA ACEH: Ten years ago, Gaya Triana, 32, had never heard of the word tsunami. This, of course changed, when 20m-high waves destroyed her family home in Lampuuk, Aceh on Boxing Day, 2004.

F ormer rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a local politician after the legacy of a devastating tsunami two decades ...

BANDA ACEH: The Malaysian Red Crescent is shocked at the derelict state of the orphanage it built in Pidie here after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami. Its national executive board member James Kon ...

The province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra suffered the heaviest damage, with more than 160,000 people killed. Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaste ...

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.

Myanmar's military junta is continuing to wage a years-long civil war despite an earthquake that has killed over 1,600 people ...

Iskandar Ismail was born in Bireuen, Aceh, on April 7, 1983. He pursued higher education at Syiah Kuala University (USK) in ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.