Earthquakes in Aceh, viewed from the Perspective of Local Culture.

On Thursday (8/2/2018), at around 16.52 WIB, Aceh was again rocked by an earthquake, measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale and data on the strength and location of the quake was obtained on the official Web BMKG Aceh, Indonesia.

The earthquake, located in Aceh Barat, Indonesia, is classified at a dangerous level, because it occurs at a depth of 10 km in the sea, although there is no warning of a tsunami, but seeing the shallow point of this earthquake can cause severe damage to the community buildings affected by the earthquake vibration effects own.

_{Quba Mosque Pangwa Pidie Jaya Aceh, which was destroyed by the earthquake in 2016}

When we look at the depth of the epicenter, we will again remember the tragedy of the earthquake in Pidie Jaya Aceh on December 7, 2016, where the shock level is only a small difference, where the Pidie Jaya earthquake measuring 6.5 Righter Scale (SR) namely 15 km (BMKG Aceh) this tragedy destroyed dozens of buildings belonging to the community Pidie Jaya Aceh and the victim's life.

_{@tarmiziahamid volunteer assistance to Pidie Jaya Aceh earthquake victims of 2016 (photo @anwarabdullah)}

Aceh, Indonesia, indeed from the 18th century until the 21st century AD, a series of natural disasters in the form of earthquakes continue to occur, this disaster for the people of Aceh only as the will of Allah SWT, as a devout Muslim all the will of the Divine is accepted with sincerity and full with sincerity and continue to be patient over the warnings of this nature.

But when we look at the specific Potential of the past heritage, this natural event has been very familiar with in different eras.

In the 18th century AD, Acehnese ancestors have written records of this earthquake that are very detailed and complete at the time, this recording of the past is in the form of original handwritten notes or often called the manuscript, through this manuscript that we know the people of Aceh are very familiar and friendly with this earthquake until now.

_{Earthquake records the manuscript, @tarmiziahamid, written in the 18th century AD during the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (photo Hermansyah)}

Banda Aceh itself in the past when a major earthquake occurred, always tell the community as a warning "ie 'Beuna" (water to come) this means sea water will go ashore, if the term is now popularly mentioned with early warning will come the tsunami, so so on when a big earthquake happens. While in Simeulu Aceh, a similar warning in the local community with the saying "Semong" (meaning of Simeulu Society's wisdom that sea water rises to the mainland) judging from both expressions of this tradition that; both of these areas are people often familiar to earthquake disaster.

In principle, past disaster guidance in Aceh has become the main focus for the people and the earthquake mitigation has been done by the ancestors according to the times, certainly according to the knowledge possessed by the ancestors.

The development of local knowledge in the past era, as a heritage of local cultural treasures should be appreciated and we need to examine continuously, where the tradition of writing in earthquake recordings are still going on to date, to be a scientific concept in the era of globalization full of technology in the modern era.

Records of earthquake recording in the manuscript, as evidence of the people of Aceh, that his country until now besieged by the earthquake disaster.

_{Volunteer member @anwarabdullah, aid to Pidie Jaya Aceh earthquake victims in 2016 (photo @tarmiziahamid)}

Therefore, all forms of moral messages framed in the local culture through writing in the Manuscript and oral messages from the past Indatu Aceh are not so easy to forget, but they serve as a form of recollection for the sake of a peaceful and hospitable life in all disasters.

_{(Photo @tarmiziahamid)}

_{(Photo @anwarabdullah)}

_{(Photo @tarmiziahamid)}

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