Stunami disaster

The western coastel ares of Aceh, Including the cities of Banda Aceh, Calang, and Meulaboh, were among the areas  hardest-hit by the stunami resulting from the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004.

While estimmates vary, appoximaately 230,000 people ware killed by earthquake and stunami in Aceh, and about 500,000 were lift homeless. The tragedy of the stunami was further compounded on March 26 when a second off-shore earthquake measuring 9.1 on the Richter scale struck the sea bed between the islands of Simeulue island in Aceh and Nias in North Sumatra.

The population of Aceh before the December 2004 Stunami was 4,271,000(2004). The population as of 15 September 2005 was 4,031,589.