Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive 9.1 earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Indonesia, India and the east coast of Africa were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction.
Below is a selection of images from the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.
Thai plainclothes police officers survey through the rubbles after Sunday’s giant wave hit at this Nam Khem village in Pang-Nga province, southern Thailand, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
In this Dec. 27, 2004 photo, a young tsunami victim’s father cries as he holds the body of his son along with other family members at the Galle Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
In this Dec. 28, 2004 photo, a boat passes by a damaged hotel, at Ton Sai Bay on Phi Phi Island, in Thailand. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
An Indian tourist inquires about his flight outside the Port Blair airport in Port Blair, capital of India’s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. More than 22,000 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa’s eastern coast, most killed by massive tidal waves that smashed coastlines after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia’s coast on Sunday, followed by aftershocks in the region. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
In this Dec. 28, 2004 photo, rescue and clean-up crew survey a flooded lobby at the Seapearl Beach Hotel along Patong Beach on Phuket Island, Thailand, after massive tsunami waves smashed coastlines Sunday morning. (AP Photo/ CP, Deddeda Stemler)
In this Jan. 8, 2005 photo, US Navy AW2 Maxwell Bjeule (no state given) tries to restrain a surging crowd of survivors as they struggle to get food and other supplies being unloaded from a US Navy Sea Hawk helicopter during its continuing sortie to the tsunami-stricken town of Meulaboh, southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province, in northwest Indonesia. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
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In this Jan. 30, 2005 photo, an aerial view shows the Rahmatullah Lampuuk mosque in the village of Lhoknga, near Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
An aerial view of Pattinapakam, a slum which was destroyed tsunami, near Madras, India, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/M.Lakshman)
A mosque stands amidst a wide swath of destruction in Banda Aceh brought about by Sunday’s earthquake-triggered tsunami as shown from the commercial plane Thursday Dec. 30, 2004 in Aceh province northwest of Indonesia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
An areal view of a wide swath of destruction of Banda Aceh Thursday Dec. 30, 2004 in Aceh province northwest of Indonesia. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Islets are formed of what used to be part of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in northwest of Indonesia, as seen from a commercial plane on Thursday Dec. 30, 2004 following Sunday’s earthquake-triggered tsunami. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A wide swath of destruction of Banda Aceh brought about by Sunday’s earthquake-triggered tsunami is shown from a commercial plane Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 in Aceh province northwest of Indonesia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
In this Dec. 26, 2004 photo, Acehnese youths try to pull a man to higher ground through a flooded street a moment after tsunami strike in the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Bedu Saini, Serambi Indonesia)
In this Dec. 30, 2004 photo, bodies of tsunami victims who died recently lie on the pavement at an overcrowded hospital in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
In this Jan. 4, 2005 photo, Senior Chief Petty Officer James Cash from San Diego, California, surveys damage to Banda Aceh town from the tsunami wave from a United States Naval helicopter flying over the Indonesian province of Aceh. (AP Photo/Andy Eames)
In this Dec. 27, 2004 photo, people displaced by the tsunami mourn their losses as they sit inside a relief camp at a temple in Varichikudi, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Madras, India. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
A boy, who has lost his parents, looks out from the window of a plane as his grandmother cries during the evacuation from the Cambal Bay, in India’s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a #tsunami, triggered by a massive 9.1 #earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Indonesia, India and the east coast of Africa were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction.
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Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a #tsunami, triggered by a massive 9.1 #earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Indonesia, India and the east coast of Africa were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction.
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