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Indian Ocean Tsunami

A well-off family on a tourist visit from the inland town of Mayiladurei wades in the ocean in Chinnangudi, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 16, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 40 of the villagers and destroying nearly all of the village's fishing equipment. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.

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2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami
A well-off family on a tourist visit from the inland town of Mayiladurei wades in the ocean in Chinnangudi, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 16, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 40 of the villagers and destroying nearly all of the village's fishing equipment. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.