The ninth most moving image of 2014 on Getty Images – as voted by the global public – is a photo by Tom Stoddart of the Asian tsunami 10 years ago.
The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated the coastline around the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004 was one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. Photo taken by Tom Stoddart.
Such was the magnitude of the disaster that both the human and environmental impacts are still being felt over a decade later.
* Photo and text from Getty Images.
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