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Indian Ocean Tsunami

A fisherman sets up a government-issued tarp on the spot where his home used to stand next to the ocean as residents await the reconstruction of permanent shelter in Perumalpettai, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 15, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 37 of the villagers and destroying nearly all of their fishing boats. 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 fisherman sets up a government-issued tarp on the spot where his home used to stand next to the ocean as residents await the reconstruction of permanent shelter in Perumalpettai, a fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India, on January 15, 2005, after the area was struck by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing 37 of the villagers and destroying nearly all of their fishing boats. Generated by an earthquake on the ocean floor, the tsunami devastated the fishing industry along the southeastern coast of India.