2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

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.

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THAILAND QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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. More than 1,000 people have been killed and thousands were injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated idyllic resort areas of southern Thailand on Sunday that made the waves and flooding struck the international resort island and the surrounding region. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

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FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2004 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2004 file photo, a boat passes by a damaged hotel, at Ton Sai Bay on Phi Phi Island, in Thailand. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

INDIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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)

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FILE - In this Dec. 28, 2004 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/ CP, Deddeda Stemler, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2005 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

INDONESIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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. The death toll estimate from the devastating 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami that followed Sunday has risen to 52,000 in Aceh province alone and brought the total death toll to more than 80,000 across South and Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

INDIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

An aerial view of Pattinapakam, a slum which was destroyed tsunami, near Madras, India, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. At least 84,455 people are reported dead around southern Asia and as far away as Somalia on Africa's eastern coast, most killed by massive tsunamis that smashed coastlines after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off Indonesia's coast on Sunday. The death toll in India is 7,330. (AP Photo/M.Lakshman)

INDONESIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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. The death toll estimate from the devastating 9.0 earthquake and the Tsunami that followed Sunday has risen to 52,000 in Aceh province alone and brought the total death toll to more than 80,000 across South and Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

INDONESIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

An areal view of a wide swath of destruction of Banda Aceh Thursday Dec. 30, 2004 in Aceh province northwest of Indonesia. Over 110,000 people were killed in 11 countries in southern Asia and Africa from Sunday's massive earthquake and tsunami waves, according to official figures. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

INDONESIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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. The death toll estimate from the devastating 9.0 earthquake and the Tsunami that followed Sunday has risen to 52,000 in Aceh province alone and brought the total death toll to more than 80,000 across South and Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2005 file photo, an aerial view shows the Rahmatullah Lampuuk mosque in the village of Lhoknga, near Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Greg Baker, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2004 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Bedu Saini, Serambi Indonesia, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 30, 2004 file photo, bodies of tsunami victims who died recently lie on the pavement at an overcrowded hospital in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2005 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)

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FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2004 file 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. Friday marks the 10th anniversary of one of the deadliest natural disasters in world history: a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake off the Indonesian coast, leaving more than 230,000 people dead in 14 countries and causing about $10 billion in damage. Countries from Indonesia to India to Africa's east coast were hit, leaving shocking scenes of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)

INDIA QUAKE TIDAL WAVE

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. About 40,000 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)

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Text from the AP news story, AP Photos: A Look Back on the Tsunami.

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