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Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) Hovercraft from USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) delivering supplies to the citizens of Meulaboh, Indonesia, after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of a magnitude of 9.1 was prompted by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times.
The tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004 was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, sending waves as high as 17.4 meters (57 feet) slamming into coastlines of Indonesia ...
Louis Mullan and Paul Murray were caught up in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
The 2004 tsunami was the first time Shelterbox had sent its own teams out to a disaster zone [Shelterbox] Mr Poole said he and his partner managed to get out of the water after scrambling onto a ...
Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi (BRR) NAD-Nias, or Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh and Nias, was an Indonesian government agency which coordinated and jointly implemented the recovery programme following the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that mostly affected Aceh and the March 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake.
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Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history. The Boxing Day quake was one of the largest ever recorded.
A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...