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Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

A very tragic events going on in Earth Mecca’s porch. The earthquake and Tsunami in Aceh on Sunday morning, December 26, 2004. Almost 500,000 lives drifting in an instant in the entire world that the rim bordering the Indian Ocean. In the region of Aceh was the biggest casualty in the world and the building of thousands of smashed corpses, thousands also lost and not found and also thousands of corpses in masse.

The earthquake occurred exactly on time at 7:58:53 GMT. The epicenter was located at longitude 3,316 ° N 95,854 ° E almost 160 km west of Aceh as deep as 10 kilometers. The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.3 according to the Richter scale and with this earthquake is most intense in the past 40 years that hit Aceh, West coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, the East coast of India, Sri Lanka, even to the East coast of Africa.

The earthquake was the third-largest recorded and had the longest duration of faulting ever observed; between eight and ten minutes. It caused the planet to vibrate as much as 10 millimetres (0.4 inches), and it remotely triggered earthquakes as far away as Alaska. Its epicentre was between Simeulueand mainland Sumatra. The trouble of the affected people and countries a worldwide humanitarian response, with donations totalling more than US$14 billion. The event is known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake

​The quake caused the ocean floor to suddenly rise by as much as 40 meters, triggering a massive tsunami. Within 20 minutes of the earthquake, the first of several 100-foot waves hit the coastline of Banda Aceh, killing more than 100,000 people and pounding the city into rubble. Then, in succession, tsunami waves rolled over coastlines in Thailand, India, and Sri Lanka, killing tens of thousands more. Eight hours later and 5,000 miles from its Asian epicenter, the tsunami claimed its final casualties on the coast of South Africa. In all, nearly 230,000 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest disasters in modern history.

Tsunami waves as high as 9 meters. This disaster is the death of history. Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Thailand is a country with the largest number of deaths.The strength of the quake was initially reported to reach a magnitude 9.0. In February 2005 reported magnitude earthquake magnitude 9.3. Although the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has approved that number. However, the United States Geological Survey set the magnitude 9.2. or when using the unit of seismic moment (Mw) of 9.5.Rupture velocity is estimated at 2.5 km/s in the direction between North-Northwest with a length of between 1200 to 1300 km. According to the emergency relief coordinator of the United Nations (UN), Jan Egeland, the death toll due to storm tsunami in 13 countries (until Sunday 2/1/2005) reached 127,672 people.But the number of fatalities in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and East Africa which in fact can never be known, it is measurable at least 150,000 people. The UN estimates the majority of additional fatalities were in Indonesia.

Because, most of the humanitarian aid is obstructedbecause there are still many areas that are isolated.Meanwhile the death toll in the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and North Sumatra, according to the Social Department, RI (11/1/2005) was 105,262 people. Meanwhile, according to news agency Reuters, the number of victims of the Tsunami is measurable to be as much of a victim’s soul with 168,183 most inflicted on Indonesia, 115,229 (per week 4/1/2005). While the total injured as many as 124,057 people, an estimated 100,000 of whom experienced the Acehnese.According to the U.S. Geological Survey the death toll reached 283,100, 14,000 people missing and 1,126,900 homeless. According to the UN, the 229,826 people missing and 186,983 were killed. Tsunami of the Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami worst becomes the last 10 years.

In Indonesia, earthquakes and tsunamis ingest more than 126,000 fatalities. Dozens of buildings were destroyed by a major earthquake, mainly in Meulaboh and Banda Aceh on the tip of Sumatra island. In Banda Aceh, about 50% of all buildings were damaged hit by tsunami. However, most of the casualties were caused by the tsunami that struck the West coast of Aceh.

Aceh paralysed Government total, when the earthquake and Tsunami in Aceh, incidentally in Jakarta itself was in the conduct of the event Halal Bi Halal Acehnese welcome post lebaran, Idul Fitri. The earthquake occurred at 04:00 pm EST to 9 on the Richter scale on December 26, 2004, earthquake in the Indian Ocean, off the western coast of Aceh. At precisely 12:00 pm GMT one by one the people of Aceh who were present at the Istora Jakarta panicked because the relationship of cell phones to Aceh broke up, their eyes on a teary.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla who was present said, “Aceh in a major disaster, I just may happen to news of an earthquake in Aceh, many damaged buildings may not be more severe than papua earthquake of 6.4 SR.” We know some of the moments leading up to the earthquake in Aceh have occurred the earthquake on 26 December 2004, an earthquake of 6.4 SR rocked Nabire, Papua Province recorded 30 people killed. 

Ever since the 2004 tsunami, the aspirational phrase “build back better” has found its way into several disaster recovery plans and guidelines, including the U.N.-endorsed Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. This story looks back at Aceh to see what lessons have been learned to make that goal more inclusive of livelihoods in affected areas — particularly the case of fisheries in Aceh, which provided direct employment for more than 80,000 people, or 16 percent of the total coastal population, prior to the tsunami.

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Wikipedia. (2020, March 5). Wikipedia. Retrieved from 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami 

Prasad, S. (2019, September 23). Mongabay. Retrieved from 15 Years after tsunami, Aceh reckons with an inconsistent fisheries recovery: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/15-years-after-tsunami-aceh-reckons-with-a-faltering-fisheries-recovery