Indian Ocean Tsunami

Murugan, a fisherman from Chinnangudi, a 540-family fishing village in the Tamil Nadu state of India takes a drunken swim in the ocean on January 16, 2005, the first person in his community to do so since the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, killing 40 people in the village. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India. .

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Murugan, a fisherman from Chinnangudi, a 540-family fishing village in the Tamil Nadu state of India takes a drunken swim in the ocean on January 16, 2005, the first person in his community to do so since the Indian Ocean tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, killing 40 people in the village. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India. .