FILE PHOTO: Onlookers look at damaged fishing trawlers stuck on a bridge following the tsunami, in Nagapattinam port, south of the Indian city of Madras December 29, 2004. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe/File Photo
PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - Communities across Asia commemorated the more than 230,000 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Thursday, the 15th anniversary of one of the world's most deadly disasters.
On the morning after Christmas Day in 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off northern Sumatra island triggered a tsunami with waves as high as 17.4 meters (57 feet) that swept over vulnerable coastal areas of Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.
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