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Some people on Indonesia’s Simeulue island relied on folklore to escape the 2004 tsunami
Mohd Riswan, 72, remembers his father telling him bedtime stories about tsunamis, called smong in the local Devayan language ...
After the tsunami: Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 20 years on
On 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake struck 240km west of Sumatra, Indonesia, rupturing the greatest ...
Aceh hopeful as Indonesia beefs up warning system 20 years after tsunami
Traumatised by the Indian Ocean tsunami that hit Indonesia 20 years ago, Teuku Hafid Hududillah has spent his adult life ...
20 years after a devastating tsunami, a survivor celebrates what the disaster has given him
The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest ...
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Indonesia remembers tsunami victims on 20th anniversary of disaster
Twenty years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that claimed over 230,000 lives across the Indian Ocean region, ...
Indonesia and Thailand mark 20 years of devastating Boxing Day tsunami with sombre ceremonies
In Thailand, people gathered at a memorial ceremony in Ban Nam Khem, a small fishing village in Phang Nga province that bore ...
American survivors recall the harrowing moments of the century's deadliest tsunami
I don’t wish ever a disaster of this magnitude on anyone,” one woman said. But the 2004 Asian tsunami also made her realize ...
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Survivors in Indonesia grapple with trauma as they rebuild their lives 20 years after devastating tsunami
Two decades after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia, some survivors are rebuilding their lives in the ...