(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121226-tsunami-anniversary-jsa-1.photoblog900.jpg)Heri Juanda / APA woman is seen through an opening on a wall as she attends a prayer commemorating the 8th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec. 26.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121226-tsunami-anniversary-jsa-4.photoblog900.jpg)Heri Juanda / APWomen weep during a prayer commemorating the 8th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Dec. 26.Today marks the 8th anniversary of the Dec. 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The disaster, triggered by a magnitude-9.3 earthquake off Sumatra, killed an estimated 230,000 people in 13 countries along the Indian Ocean.
-- European Pressphoto Agency(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121226-tsunami-anniversary-jsa-3.photoblog900.jpg)Arun Sankar K. / APIndians perform rituals and offer milk on Marina beach, a location hit by the 2004 tsunami, in Chennai, India, on Dec. 26, 2012.(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121226-tsunami-anniversary-jsa-2.photoblog900.jpg)Hotli Simanjuntak / EPAChildren play amid the ruins of houses destroyed by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, on Dec. 26.Follow @NBCNewsPictures (https://twitter.com/NBCNewsPictures)
Previously on PhotoBlog:
- Scenes of panic in Banda Aceh after earthquake hits off Indonesia coast (http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/11/11137414-scenes-of-panic-in-banda-aceh-after-earthquake-hits-off-indonesia-coast?lite)
- Thai attempt to protect popular beach from future tsunami with wooden fence (http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/06/11/6839150-thai-attempt-to-protect-popular-beach-from-future-tsunami-with-wooden-fence?lite)
- Tsunami survivor remembers 2004 disaster in Sri Lanka (http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2010/12/26/5717607-tsunami-survivor-remembers-2004-disaster-in-sri-lanka?lite)
Slideshow: Remembering a disaster (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/34514633/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=34514633&wbSection=news)(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-091221-tsunami-2004/ss-091221-tsunami-2004-tease.photoblog900.jpg) (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/34514633/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=34514633&wbSection=news)Jacob J. Kirk / APMore than 230,000 people were killed with a tsunami erupted in the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004. The impact of the disaster was felt in many Asian and African nations.Launch slideshowCommentintercourseplore related topics: indonesia (http://www.theinfostride.com/indonesia), anniversary (http://www.theinfostride.com/anniversary), tsunami (http://www.theinfostride.com/tsunami), aceh (http://www.theinfostride.com/aceh), world-news (http://www.theinfostride.com/world-news), indian-ocean-tsunami (http://www.theinfostride.com/indian-ocean-tsunami)
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