Indonesia Tsunami

Mega disaster

BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA—The facts area unit therefore surprising they bear continuance.
Just before eight a.m. time on Dec. 26, 2004, one amongst the most important earthquakes ever recorded occurred off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. It triggered a vast moving ridge, devastating shorelines round the ocean.
Aceh province, on the northern tip of Sumatra, was out and away the worst affected. Waves up to twenty metres high destroyed everything, taking homes, boats, trees and cars together.
Some 170,000 folks were killed. many thousands were cut and displaced.
Here in Aceh’s capital, survivors recall the day that worn out life as that they had well-known it.