The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported the epicenter was located in the sea, 28 kilometers southwest of Tapaktuan City, South Aceh, at a depth of 59 kilometers. Daryono, ...

This later narrative was compelling enough to accelerate the post-tsunami recovery process. People in Aceh moved past the tsunami trauma by believing their deceased family members were martyrs who ...

The province of Aceh on the northern end of Sumatra suffered the heaviest damage, with more than 160,000 people killed. Six years after the Boxing Day Tsunami—or the Asian Tsunami as the disaste ...

The tsunami killed an estimated 130,000 people in Aceh. The densely populated Banda Aceh was the worst-hit — with some 60,000 people dead and many more missing.

A magnitude 6.2 quake hit off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province on Friday, the country's geophysics agency said on social media platform X.

F ormer rebel commander Muharram Idris once led 3,000 men to fight Indonesia's army in separatist Aceh, but now serves as a local politician after the legacy of a devastating tsunami two decades ...

Saudah, 64, a survivor of the Indian Ocean tsunami, poses for pictures in front of coast guard ships that were carried about five kilometres inland near her house in the city center of Banda Aceh, ...

In 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the island of Sumatra in western Indonesia triggered a tsunami in the Indian ... Outside her home in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, neighborhood life goes on ...

“We had never heard the word ‘tsunami’ before, and I had no idea what was happening.” Arianto was in Banda Aceh, the closest major city to the epicenter of the magnitude 9.62 earthquake off the west ...