2004- 2005. Intensity. Conflict country. Indonesia. Fragility risks. Content. Note: This is a case where a natural disaster contributed to resolving a priorly existing civil war. While a very important case, this does not fit closely into the conceptual model focused on the relationship of environmental change and conflict.
About 228,000 people were killed as a result of the 9.1 magnitude quake and the giant waves that slammed into coastlines on 26 December 2004. The violent upward thrust of the ocean floor at 07:58
26 Desember 2004. Masih terekam dalam ingatan tragedi yang terjadi sehari pasca-perayaan Natal ini. Gempa besar dengan magnitudo 9,3, terjadi di bumi Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, Indonesia. Tsunami muncul setelahnya. Salah satu gempa terbesar yang pernah ada dalam sejarah ini tak hanya melumpuhkan Aceh, dampaknya menyebar ke banyak negara.
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - In the early morning of December 26 of 2004, a mega-tsunami hit the Indonesian province of Aceh caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake. In just under 10 minutes, thousands of cubic meters of ocean water were displaced into the land and killed over 170,000 people in Indonesia with thousands more in surrounding countries that
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