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Tsunami 10 years on: The city at its epicentre has been rebuilt, but other scars remain

december 25, 2014by 0

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The before and after pictures say it all. And now, exactly 10 years on, it is almost unimaginable that Aceh was left devastated by a massive tsunami, triggered by an undersea earthquake so powerful it made the earth itself wobble on its axis. On the western tip of Indonesia, Aceh province was the closest landmass to the earthquake epicentre, and by far the worst affected. About 170,000 people died, hundreds of thousands more lost their houses and livelihood. Most man-made structures, some of them three miles inland from the 500-mile coastline, were completely destroyed. The disaster triggered a massive influx of international aid, and a decade later, Aceh can say it has been successfully…

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