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2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: 10 years on

On Sunday 26 December 2004, an earthquake with an epicentre off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, created a massive tsunami, known as the Indian Ocean tsunami, south Asian tsunami, Indonesian tsunami, the Christmas tsunami and the Boxing Day tsunami. Ten years on, we revisit affected areas
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    Damien Kingsbury
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  • A Sri Lankan woman lights an earthenware lamp as she sits with others at Unawatuna Beach in Galle, some 123 km south of Colombo, 26 January 2005. Sri Lankans lit some 40,000 lamps in memories of those killed by tsunami waves which struck 26 December 2004

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  • Paul and Rob Forkan, founders of Gandys flip-flops

    Indian Ocean tsunami: Britons caught up in disaster help Sri Lanka rebuild

  • Septi and Jamaliah Rangkuti with their daughter Raudhatul Jannah and sons Jumadi and Arif Pratama

    Indian Ocean tsunami 2004: 'I really felt that both of my kids were still alive'

  • Marthunis, 17

    Indian Ocean tsunami: survivors' stories from Aceh

  • 10 years after tsunami in Banda Aceh city

    Aceh 10 years after the Boxing Day tsunami – in pictures

  • Water distribution in Indonesia

    Where did the Indian Ocean tsunami aid money go?

  • The human and financial cost of the Indian Ocean tsunami – interactive

  • Indian Ocean tsunami survivors reunited with childhood drawings

  • Boxing Day tsunami: 10 years on, the scars are not hard to find in Aceh

  • Moken freedivers

    Tsunami, 10 years on: the sea nomads who survived the devastation

  • Banda Aceh

    Boxing Day 2004 tsunami: Banda Aceh - then and now

  • River gauge in Banaba, Manila, the Philippines

    When disaster strikes, we're more ready than ever before

  • Tim Hetherington, who died in action in Libya in 2011, travelled to India and Sri Lanka in 2005 with the charity Christian Aid as part of a commission for the exhibition Every time I see the sea.

    Indian Ocean tsunami: 10 years after the wave

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