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Έχουν περάσει ήδη 13 χρόνια από το πρωινό της 26ης Δεκεμβρίου του 2004 που ένας ισχυρότατος σεισμός μεγέθους 9,1-9,3 της κλίμακας Ρίχτερ έπληξε τα βόρεια του νησιού Σουμάτρα της Ινδονησίας, προκαλώντας τσουνάμι με κύματα ύψους έως 30 μέτρων.
Συνολικά, από το σεισμό και το τσουνάμι επλήγησαν 15 χώρες, ενώ ο τελικός απολογισμός των θυμάτων κυμαίνεται από 230.210 έως 280.000, καθιστώντας το γεγονός ως την 6η μεγαλύτερη φυσική καταστροφή στην καταγεγραμμένη ιστορία.
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Τσουνάμι 2004
Τσουνάμι(01 of10)
An Acehnese mother carries a piece of wood while cleaning the yard of her newly built home near Lam No in Indonesia. An Acehnese mother carries a piece of wood while cleaning the yard of her newly built home near Lam No in Indonesia June 14, 2005. The villages around Lam No were badly hit by the December 26, 2004 Indian ocean tsunami that devastatad the Indonesian province of Aceh. A Turkish aid group has been building hundreds of simple one-bedroom homes near Lam No. Acehnese affected by the tsunami say that getting out of refugee tents and government-built barracks and into proper homes is one of the most important things to help them move on. REUTERS/Beawiharta (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(02 of10)
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Τσουνάμι(03 of10)
Personal possessions of 2004 tsunami victims are arranged to be photographed outside a police station in Takua Pa, in Phang Nga province December 19, 2014. Thai police opened a shipping container filled with documents and possessions of victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami after being asked by Reuters for permission to film its contents. The three metre by 12 metre container was handed over to Thai police in 2011 and contains hundreds of plastic police evidence bags - each one holding the precious items found on the body of a victim. In Thailand, over 5,300 people were killed, including several thousand foreign tourists, when the waves swamped six coastal provinces, turning some of the world's most beautiful beaches into mass graves. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY ANNIVERSARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 13 OF 24 FOR WIDER IMAGE PACKAGE 'TSUNAMI - UNCLAIMED POSSESSIONS'SEARCH 'DAMIR UNCLAIMED' FOR ALL IMAGES (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(04 of10)
Acehnese residents queue for bread handed out by a Turkish government aid agency in the tsunami-hit Indonesian provincial city of Banda Aceh February 24, 2005. Almost 240,000 people are dead or listed missing and more than 400,000 were made homeless after a tsunami hit Aceh on December 26, 2004. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva SUPRI/AT (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(05 of10)
Acehnese students play among ruined houses in the town of Calang in Indonesia's tsunami-stricken province of Aceh February 23, 2005. Almost 240,000 people are dead or missing and more than 400,000 were made homeless in Aceh by the December 26, 2004 tsunami. REUTERS/Supri SUPRI/YH (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(06 of10)
A Sri Lankan child walks pasts a wrecked coach of a tsunami-hit train in Peraliya, southern Sri Lanka, February 27, 2005. A steady stream of hundreds of weekend sightseers, Sri Lankan and foreign, stop in Peraliya on the road south from Colombo to the historic port of Galle to sense the fearsome force of water that threw the train from its tracks on December 26, 2004. Three carriages have been hoisted back onto and old section of track in the heart of the coastal village, where virtually every building was flattened. REUTERS/Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi AL/ABP (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(07 of10)
Amiruddin, a 15 year-old Acehnese boy, collects scrap metal for sale in tsunami-hit Banda Aceh March 14, 2005. The Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26 2004 and the tsunami it caused left more than 122,000 dead and nearly 114,000 missing in Aceh. REUTERS/Tarmizy Harva SUPRI (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(08 of10)
Indian fishermen collect fish catch from their net in Nagapattinam, some 325 km (202 miles) south of Madras, March 26, 2005. Almost after three months since the tsunami struck on December 26, 2004 in Nagapattinum, life in the affected area is slowly returning to normal. The tsunami hit India's fishing community hardest. About 80 percent of the nearly 8,500 people killed on the Indian mainland were from fishing families. REUTERS/Babu FK/JJ (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(09 of10)
A devastated house following December 26 tsunami swept the Indonesian Aceh province at a middle class housing complex in Kajhu. A devastated house following December 26 tsunami swept the Indonesian Aceh province at a middle class housing complex in Kajhu in the outskirt of Banda Aceh April 3, 2005. The local government will hold a 100th day commemoration on Tuesday for around 250,000 people who were killed or are missing after the tsunami swept the Indonesian Aceh province December 26, 2004. REUTERS/Steve Crisp PP05040026 (credit:Reuters)
Τσουνάμι(10 of10)
Achenese men walk amid their devastated houses following December 26 tsunami swept the Indonesian Aceh province at a middle class housing complex in Kajhu. Achenese men walk amid the debris of their devastated houses following December 26 tsunami which swept the Indonesian Aceh province at a middle class housing complex in Kajhu on the outskirts of Banda Aceh April 3, 2005. The local government will hold a 100th day commemoration on Tuesday for around 250,000 people who were killed or are missing after the tsunami swept the Indonesian Aceh province December 26, 2004. REUTERS/Steve Crisp (credit:Reuters)