On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...

Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...

The powerful 9.1-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggered a tsunami that killed ...

Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives across the Indian Ocean region, ...

Building monuments is one way to preserve the memory of the disaster. However, many survivors feel less connected to the ...

The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, ...

Survivors and families of victims visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia ...

Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia, Masaki Yasushi, has expressed the hope that the Aceh government will strengthen disaster ...

Nurlina is one of the thousands of people across Aceh who experienced, and survived, the magnitude 9.2 earthquake in the ...

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