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20 years Indian Ocean tsunami

Today marks 15 years since a 9.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.

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20 years Indian Ocean tsunami

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  1. 20 years Indian Ocean tsunami

  2. Submerged building near the pier at Ton Sai Bay in Thailand's Phi Phi island, December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui

  3. A picture of missing Australian Troy Broadbridge is pegged to a tree on Thailand's Phi Phi island, January 3, 2005. REUTERS/Kin Cheung

  4. A Buddhist monk looks at a wrecked carriage after an entire train was destroyed in Paraliya, Sri Lanka, December 30, 2004. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  5. A Thai man looks a cars wrecked after a tidal wave hit Pathong beach, near Phuket, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui

  6. A man sits in the remains of his home that was destroyed in the village of Pandiruppu on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 6, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  7. An Acehnese man leaps across a pool of water near the ruins of his house in the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, January 8, 2005. REUTERS/Beawiharta

  8. An Acehnese man looks at a boat left on top of a house as a result of the tsunami in the Indonesian provincial city of Banda Aceh, February 24, 2005. REUTERS/Supri Supri

  9. A man reacts next to a building that was destroyed in Cuddalore, India, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  10. An Indian man cries as he holds the hand of his eight-year-old son killed in a tsunami in Cuddalore, India, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  11. Two young Muslim girls watch as an excavator clears a path on a street destroyed by the tsunami in the town of Kalumnai on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 4, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  12. An Indian tsunami survivor looks for her belongings amid the debris of her tsunami-destroyed house that is being burnt by Indian workers in a fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam, India, January 3, 2005. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  13. Women mourn the death of victims in Cuddalore, India, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  14. Michael Will from England walks among the ruins of his flattened hotel after returning for his luggage, after devastation caused by tidal waves at Pathong beach, near Phuket, Thailand, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui

  15. A woman weeps on the tsunami-battered beach in Karaitivu in Sri Lanka's Kalmunai district in the east coast, January 2, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  16. An Acehnese girl cries with her mother near the ruins of their house in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 29, 2004. REUTERS/Beawiharta

  17. A hotel swimming pool at Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand, is left with trash after the town was hit by a tsunami, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad

  18. Women hold onto each other as they queue to register for aid in a refugee camp in Karaitivu in the Kalmunai area of Sri Lanka's east coast January 2, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  19. An upturned vehicle stands vertical against in Unawatuna, outside the southern Sri Lankan town of Galle, December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Thomas White

  20. Salvaged belongings are kept against a tree in the tsunami ravaged town of Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 14, 2005. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  21. An Indian woman mourns the death of her relative, who was killed in a tsunami in Cuddalore, India, December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  22. Indian survivors carry belongings as they leave their houses in Karamawadi village on the outskirts of Nagapattinam, India, December 27, 2004. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe

  23. Coffins are placed at a warehouse on the port of Phuket, Thailand, December 28, 2004. REUTERS/Luis Enrique Ascui

  24. An Indian tsunami survivor, displaced from her home, looks on at a relief centre in Nagapattinam, India, January 3, 2005. REUTERS/Arko Datta

  25. Tsunami refugees receive supplies distributed by USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in Krueng Raya, northeast of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, January 3, 2005. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

  26. Tsunami survivors scramble for water supplies as they are unloaded from an aid truck in Karaitivu on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 2, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  27. An elephant carries the body of a tsunami victim after discovering it in Takuapa district, Thailand, January 2, 2005. REUTERS/SompahtMeepan

  28. A skull displaced from its coffin that was unearthed by the tsunami lies on the roadside in Sinnamunhattuvaram on Sri Lanka's east coast, January 3, 2005. REUTERS/Kieran Doherty

  29. The aerial view of Marina beach after a tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean hit the area in the southern Indian city of Madras, December 26, 2004. REUTERS/Babu

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