Family members of the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, offer prayers at a memorial monument on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, in Peraliya on December 26, 2024. On December 26, 2004, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck the coast of Sumatra in Indonesia and triggered a huge tsunami across the Indian Ocean that killed more than 220,000 people in a dozen countries. (Photo by Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP Photo)
