Aceh

where the wave was the strongest and deadliest. By pure luck it happened that the the populations were very high in areas such as Aceh. Aceh is in Indonesia, right on the northern most tip where roughly 170,000 people were killed. Residents of Aceh were ignorant to the dangers of living so close to the water especially without structures that were built for the region. Aceh suffered incredible loss in deaths as well as leaving over 500,000 people homeless. Yet biggest killer was the lack of a…

attraction. Among physical attraction identified are: a. Sultan Abdul Jalil Grave According to Kamarudin (1998), Tomb of Sultan Abdul Jalil is located in the orchards and the villages are close to the road. It is consequently shaped stone tombstone of Aceh. According to the locals, the tombs originally housed in a stone building. Today, the building is converted to a gated building. The stone blocks (mudstone) which are the original shape are about 50cm long and 30cm wide and 25cm thick can…

real life, and gives you a sense of how bad life was after the tsunami struck and how fatal it was. The book was written in 2006, two years after the colossal tsunami hit places in the Indian Ocean, and the author was a rescue worker in the ruins of Aceh, giving Lewis a setting to use for a book that could express just how deadly and destructive the earthquake and the tsunami it consequently triggered was, through intriguing historical fiction. A New York Times article named…

Task 1: Describe the pattern(s) of the global geographic topic Just before 8:00am local time on Boxing Day 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred about 240 kilometres off the coast of Sumatra and about 30 kilometres below the ocean floor. The earthquake jolted the seabed for nearly 10 minutes. It was one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded. This submarine earthquake, provided the initial disturbance in the height of the ocean’s surface. For a short time after the earthquake,…

The Boxing Day tsunami was a tragic event. Occurring December 24, 2004 an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 released a huge vibration that lasted 10 minutes; causing the Indian Ocean to draw back. Boxing Day defined by Dictionary.com, is, “(in Britain) the first weekday after Christmas, when Christmas gifts or boxes are given to employees, letter carriers, etc.” Though it was supposed to be an exciting day in places like Thailand and India it soon changed into a nightmare. With more than…

country of Indonesia, killing thousands and leaving thousands homeless without food by any means of communication with the outside world. Shortly after the word had gone out Richard Lewis an everyday author decided to take a trip over to the city of Aceh where the tsunami had hit the hardest. What he saw blew him away, he was speechless all the destruction around him demolished buildings flooded streets, and dead people everywhere he looked. Richard Lewis saw the looks on the civilians faces,…

Introduction Consensus (ijma) has long been recognised as a fundamental source of Islamic legal norms (Zaman, 2006:153). However, there is no universal agreement on how consensus should be reached and whether it is the consensus of legal scholars or that of the whole community that should be pursued (ibid.). Muhammad Qasim Zaman (ibid.) argues that the doctrine of consensus has been severely challenged in modern times; indeed, one could wonder whether it is at all possible to reach a substantive…

fish that lives in the ocean in groups of it’s own kind. * The grouper is a predatory fish that preys on various types of small fish, animal plankton, squid, and other small animals. * *Cekidot* is the tiger grouper’s Indonesian name. In my home in Aceh the tiger grouper is also called a coral grouper. In the Acehnese language it has the name *keurape rimung*. Tiger groupers are sold on the international trade trade market under the name Carpet Cod or Flower. According to Wardana, 1994…

school. Parents need to teach their children good daily habits to help them grow up to be responsible adults.* INSERT PICTURE HERE # (-- removed HTML --) The Story of Jhon The Sleepyhead (-- removed HTML --) ## It was a bright and sunny morning in Aceh, Indonesia and the sky was clear. Lately, it had been raining and the streets were still wet and muddy. Jhon was having a hard time waking up. He felt warm and cozy in his bed. The air in his bedroom was cool and Jhon enjoyed…

Richter Scale measures seismic waves through the ground after the initial shock in the epicenter of the Earthquake and puts it into a category of size which is magnitude. The highest magnitude quake ever recorded was of 9.1-9.3 magnitude in 2004 in Aceh Indonesia and completely devastated the region along a fault there is a lot of reasons why an earthquake might occur such…