According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the earthquakes and resulting tsunamis that raged across Southeast Asia damaged two Indonesian universities. In Aceh, Syiah Kuala University has suspended classes due to structural concerns. Many students and faculty died in the catastrophe. And in Banda Aceh, the Institute Agama Islam Negeri was decimated.

In total, approximately 150,000 people perished in this natural Disaster. That's the current estimate; it could and probably will rise. The videos and pictures are incredible, and the individual stories of survival and loss are impossible to forget.

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