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The Boxing Day tsunami in 2004 killed more than
230,000 people in 14 countries, when waves up to 100ft high swept in
over Southeast Asia, displacing millions and destroying infrastructure
worth billions. The worst hit country, the archipelago nation of
Indonesia, suffered more death and destruction than any other, when the
Indian Ocean earthquake was followed by a tsunami on December 26, 2004.
Ten years later, communities in Indonesia's Aceh province have rebuilt
their homes, towns and villages, rising from the ashes of the single
worst tsunami in human history.
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The district of Banda Aceh in Aceh province, located on Indonesia's
Sumatra island, just days after the massive Boxing Day tsunami of 2004,
and below it the same location photographed on December 1, 2014
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The left photo was taken on January 2,
2005, showing of a damaged mosque in Teunom, located in the Aceh Jaya
district, and right, is the same area ten years later
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The top photograph was taken on January 8, 2005, and shows of two
fishing boats beside a commercial building in central Banda Aceh, which
had been carried into the city by the massive wave, and then, bottom,
last month
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The left photograph taken three days after the tsunami in 2004, shows
residents walking over huge pile of debris covering the street of Banda
Aceh, and the same location photographed on November 27, 2014
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The top photograph was taken with a telephoto lens on January 16, 2005,
more than two weeks after the tsunami, showing a partly damaged mosque
in the Lampuuk coastal district of Banda Aceh, staining alone in the
debris, and photographed again, below, this month
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The first photograph was taken on January 9, 2005, just over a week
after the tsunami, showing a of a street which had been cleared, but
still had huge piles of debris on either side, in Meulaboh in Aceh, and
the same location photographed on November 29 this year
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The left photograph shows debris scattered across the grounds of Banda
Aceh's Baiturrahaman mosque in Aceh province, two days after the
tsunami, and right, taken on November 27 this year, shows the renovated
grounds
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The top shoto was taken just days after the 2004 tsunami, and shows
heavy debris spread across the grounds of Banda Aceh's Baiturrahaman
mosque in Aceh province, and the same location photographed on November
27, 2014 (bottom) showing the renovated grounds
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The top photo was taken on, January 9, 2005, of the impassable main
coastal road covered with debris in Aceh Besar district, in Aceh
province and the same location photographed on November 29, 2014,
showing the new highway
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These two pictures show Lhoknga in Aceh province, the
top one taken on January 23, 2005 showing residents using an improvised
raft to cross a river as an Indonesian soldier guards the area, and the
same location photographed on November 29, 2014 (bottom) showing the
abandoned site and a new bridge constructed nearby
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