2004Tsunami: 1/2 Thai navy rescue team retrieve bodies of tsunami victims near Khao Lak, nearly 110 km (68 miles) north of the Thai resort island of Phuket. 2/2 Bodies of victims in the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, float in the water near the port.
RinaMeutia survived the devastating tsunami 10 years ago in Indonesia's Banda Aceh. She talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt about the immediate aftermath and how the region has changed since then.
Thesource of the 2004 tsunami was a huge earthquake, measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale, its epicentre in the Indian Ocean 250km south-east of the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh. Waves generated by it's force were reported to be up to 15m high.
Thetsunami in 2004 devastated the region, and wiped out large parts of this city. The waves, more than 20 meters high (65 ft), not only leveled the majority of built structures in the affected areas, it reshaped the land itself. Now, Banda Aceh is widely held as a successful reconstruction effort.
The2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami caused around 230,000 people died and it affected 14 countries around the Indian Ocean [1]. For Banda Aceh, The tsunami impact on buildings in Banda Aceh, should the same magnitude as in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami occur again, will still demolish most of buildings within 1 km from coastline of the city with
Manybuildings have been flattened and almost 100 people killed after an undersea earthquake struck off the coast of Aceh province in northern Indonesia, the site of the devastating quake and
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