NEWSAsia marks 10 years since tsunamiBANDA ACEH, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 26: Abdullah (58), a fisherman prays on the beach on December 26, 2014 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aceh was the worst hit location, being the closest major city to the epicentre of the 9.1 magnitude quake, suffering a huge hit from the following tsunami and resulting in around 130,000 deaths. Throughout the affected region of eleven countries, nearly 230,000 people were killed, making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 529140327 ORIG FILE ID: 460837604Ulet Ifansasti, Getty Imagesepa04540355 A foreigner prays after lighting a candle as she attends the memorial ceremony for tsunami victims at the Police Boat T813 Tsunami Memorial on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Boxing Day Tsunami, in Khao Lak, Phang Nga province in southern Thailand, 26 December 2014. The day is marked by ceremonies to remember the ten year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed some 5,000 people in Thailand, many of them foreigners vacationing in the area. Germans and Swedish nationals were among the highest of the foreign death toll. In total, more than 280,000 who were killed or are missing as the devastating waves struck 14 nations around the Indian Ocean. EPA/BARBARA WALTON ORG XMIT: NAR23Barbara Walton, EPAepa04540225 People lay flowers on the memorial tiles of their loved ones in a Germans, Austrian and Swiss ceremony for those family of victims killed in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami at the wave shaped tunnel that forms the Tsunami Memorial Park funded by ThyssenKrupp Germany at Baan Nam Khem, Phang Nga province in southern Thailand, 26 December 2014. The day is marked by ceremonies to remember the ten year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed some 5,000 people in Thailand, many of them foreigners vacationing in the area. Germans and Swedish nationals were among the highest of the foreign death toll. In total, more than 280,000 who were killed or are missing as the devastating waves struck 14 nations around the Indian Ocean. EPA/BARBARA WALTON ORG XMIT: BW133Barbara Walton, EPAMemorial tiles for people killed in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami at the wave shaped tunnel that forms the Tsunami Memorial Park funded by ThyssenKrupp Germany at Baan Nam Khem, Phang Nga province in southern Thailand, 26 December 2014. The day is marked by ceremonies to remember the ten year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed some 5,000 people in Thailand, many of them foreigners vacationing in the area. Germans and Swedish nationals were among the highest of the foreign death toll. In total, more than 280,000 who were killed or are missing as the devastating waves struck 14 nations around the Indian Ocean. EPA/BARBARA WALTON ORG XMIT: BW131Barbara Walton, EPAThai students make sand sculptures at Patong beach in Phuket province.Pornchai Kittiwongsakul, AFP/Getty ImagesIndian women offer prayers on the Marina Beach at the Bay of Bengal.Arun Sankar K, APA Sri Lankan girl commemorates the victims of the December 2004 tsunami, offering flowers, prayers and alms during a special ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary in the southern coastal town of Peraliya on December 26, 2014, the tenth anniversary of the deadly Asian tsunami. The Ocean Queen Express, which was rebuilt after the tsunami, has become a symbol of the disaster in Sri Lanka and was at the centre of commemorations for the country's 31,000 victims. Survivors and relatives of the dead boarded the train December 26 morning in Colombo and headed to Peraliya, the exact spot where it was ripped from the tracks, around 90 kilometres (56 miles) south of Colombo. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARAIshara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: 536375740Ishara S. Kodikara, AFP/Getty ImagesSri Lankan beachgoers play in the surf in the southern coastal town of Peraliya on December 26, 2014, the tenth anniversary of the deadly Asian tsunami. The Ocean Queen Express, which was rebuilt after the tsunami, has become a symbol of the disaster in Sri Lanka and was at the centre of commemorations for the country's 31,000 victims. Survivors and relatives of the dead boarded the train December 26 morning in Colombo and headed to Peraliya, the exact spot where it was ripped from the tracks, around 90 kilometres (56 miles) south of Colombo. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARAIshara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: 536375851Ishara S. Kodikara, AFP/Getty ImagesSri Lankan passengers are pictured in a train compartment that was swept away during the 2004 tsunami and later retrieved and restored.Ishara S. Kodikara, AFP/Getty ImagesSri Lankan tsunami survivor Nirmali Fernando holds up train tickets that she and her husband travelled with when the tsunami hit ten years ago, during a commemorative journey on the rebuilt Ocean Queen Express from Colombo to Peraliya on December 26, 2014, the tenth anniversary of the deadly Asian tsunami. The Ocean Queen Express, which was rebuilt after the tsunami, has become a symbol of the disaster in Sri Lanka and was at the centre of commemorations for the country's 31,000 victims. Survivors and relatives of the dead boarded the train December 26 morning in Colombo and headed to Peraliya, the exact spot where it was ripped from the tracks, around 90 kilometres (56 miles) south of Colombo. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARAIshara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: 536375382Ishara S. Kodikara, AFP/Getty Imagesepa04540258 Acehnese wait for their turn to enter the Tsunami museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 26 December 2014. The museum was built as a symbolic reminder of the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and is an earthquake and tsunami disaster educational center as well as an emergency disaster shelter if another tsunami should occur. Thousands of Acehnese visited the museum as they commemorate tyhe tenth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami. The day is marked by ceremonies to remember the ten year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed some 5,000 people in Thailand, many of them foreigners vacationing in the area. Germans and Swedish nationals were among the highest of the foreign death toll. In total, more than 280,000 who were killed or are missing as the devastating waves struck 14 nations around the Indian Ocean. EPA/ADI WEDA ORG XMIT: wde572Adi Weda, EPAepa04540252 Visitor take photographs of a wall with names of tsunami victims at the Tsunami museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, 26 December 2014. The Tsunami Museum was built as a symbolic reminder of the 26 December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and is an earthquake and tsunami disaster educational center as well as an emergency disaster shelter if another tsunami should happen. The day is marked by ceremonies to remember the ten year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that killed some 5,000 people in Thailand, many of them foreigners vacationing in the area. Germans and Swedish nationals were among the highest of the foreign death toll. In total, more than 280,000 who were killed or are missing as the devastating waves struck 14 nations around the Indian Ocean. EPA/ADI WEDA ORG XMIT: wde565Adi Weda, EPAA survivor looks at a painting showing an impression of the 2004 tsunami during an exhibition in Lambada, in Aceh province on December 26, 2014, on the tenth anniversary of the disaster. Prayer recitals and solemn visits to mass graves marked the start of mourning on December 26 across tsunami-hit nations for the 220,000 people who perished when giant waves decimated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean a decade ago. AFP PHOTO / Chaideer MAHYUDDIN ---EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE, MANDATORY CREDIT OF THE ARTIST, TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN/AFP/Getty Images ORIG FILE ID: 536375337Chaideer Mahyuddin, AFP/Getty ImagesPriests from Japan chant for Japanese victims at a ceremony in Kamala beach on Phuket island, Thailand.Yongyot Pruksarak EPAFeatured Weekly Ad