2004 tsunami devastation in southern Asia

Naval air crewmen help an injured Indonesian woman to a waiting helicopter for a trip to a medical facility.  (U.S. Navy / Getty Images)

Survivors sift through clothing at a camp for displaced villagers in Thailand. Secretary of State Powell and Gov. Bush were in that country Monday assessing relief efforts.  (Andrew Wong / Getty Images)

U.S. sailors load food and water onto a Seahawk helicopter headed for Indonesia’s Aceh province.  (Choo Youn-Kong / AFP/Getty Images)

Indonesians prepare to leave by river with a boat full of relief goods for remote areas of Aceh province. Indonesian authorities raised the death toll to 94,000.  (Peter Dejong / AP)

Sri Lankans line up for food in Panadura, 25 miles south of the capital, Colombo. Reaching remote areas is still an issue and U.N. officials appealed for cargo planes and helicopters.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

A Sri Lankan woman who lost two young children in the tsunami is overwhelmed by the wreckage at the site of her home in the northern town of Mullaittivu, controlled by Tamil rebels.  (Ed Wray / AP)

LOST LIVES: The bodies of tsunami victims are cremated amid seaside debris in Nagappattinam, on India’s southeastern coast.  (Gurinder Osan / AP)

Destruction on Phi Phi Island.  (Suzanne Plunkett / AP)

Thai rescue workers carry a body in a rescue vessel in Tonsai Bay, Phi Phi Island, Thailand.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

A couple inspect the remains of their home on the coast of the Ratmalana district after the massive tsunami wave swept across coastal Sri Lanka.  (Scott Barbour / Getty Images)

Rescue and clean-up crews survey a flooded lobby at the Seapearl Beach Hotel along Patong Beach on Phuket Island, Thailand.  (Deddeda Stemler / AP)

A broken mannequin head lies at the pool of the Le Meridien hotel that was completely devastated along the shoreline of Khao Lak, a province above the Thai tourist haven of Phuket island.  (Saeed Khan AFP/Getty Images)

Thai residents carry their personal belongings in Phi Phi Village, on Ton Sai Bay, Thailand.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

Thai nurses prepare numbered identification photographs of recovered bodies of tsunami victims at the government Patong Hospital in Phuket Island.  (Romeo Gacad AFP/Getty Images)

A Thai man looks at photographs for missing relatives posted outside the emergency ward of the government Patong Hospital on Phuket Island.  (Romeo Gacad AFP/Getty Images)

Women grieve as they pass by boats destroyed by tidal waves at the harbor area in Nagappattinam, in the southern India state of Tamil Nadu.  (Gurinder Osan / AP)

A Russian airplane hired by Danish Unicef is loaded with aid at Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen before it takes off for Colombo, Sri Lanka.  (Rune Feldt-Rasmussen AFP/Getty Images)

A French tourist, victim of the tsunamis, is helped by members of the French Red Cross at Roissy airport, north of Paris, after being repatriated from Male, Maldives.  (Joel Saget AFP/Getty Images)

A day after her 9-year-old daughter Nirmala was washed out to sea by a tsunami wave, Thenmozhi, 26, wandered dazed through the southern India coastal town of Cuddalore wailing over and over, “Oh, what sin did I commit? Why did the Almighty take my daughter away?”  (Paul Watson / LAT)

Swaminathan, 30, sobbed and clung tightly to his 6-year-old daughter Madhivadhani after burying her mother Mahalakshmi, 27, and little brother, Rahul, 4, in a mass grave in Thazanguda, India, after they were killed by Sunday’s tsunami waves.  (Paul Watson / LAT)

Survivors of Sunday’s tsunami waves that killed more than 2,000 people in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state walk through the rubble of a fisherman’s beachfront home that was flattened by the surges.  (Paul Watson / LAT)

As emergency crews in southern India struggled to find the dead and feed the living, dogs in the devastated seaside fishing village of Thazanguda scavenged among rotting fish and livestock for their meals.  (Paul Watson / LAT)

Kadhir Veerappan, 40, lost his mother Gandhimadhi in the tsunami waves that hammered the southern Indian fishing village of Thazanguda on Sunday, and would have lost his own life if he hadn’t managed to ride out three waves up to 25-feet high.  (Paul Watson / LAT)

Vehicles, boats and other debris on Madras’ Marina Beach after it was hit by tidal waves. There was deaths and damage along the entire coast of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.  (M. Lakshman / AP)

The scene at the Marina beach in Madras after tidal waves hit the region.  (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Indian fire officials prepare emergency equipment at their headquarters in Ahmedabad for use in disaster relief in the eastern state of Tamil Nadu.  (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

A man passes bodies at a morturary in Madras after tidal waves hit coastal India.  (Prakash Sing AFP/Getty Images)

Fishing boats and a car among the debris along the coast of Langkawi island, northwest Malaysia, after a tidal wave was triggered by a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the nearby Indonesian island of Sumatra.  (AFP/Getty Images)

A woman cries after tidal waves destroyed her house on the coastal areas in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  (Eranga Jayawardena / AP)

Foreign tourists view damaged bus overturned by waves on Phuket island of Thailand.  (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Tsunami damage near tourist area of Phuket island, southern Thailand.  (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

Thai rescuers carry the body of victim after many were drowned or injured along Patong beach in Phuket, southern Thailand.  (Karim Khamzin / AP)

A western tourist looks at a wrecked jeep by the sea at Pathong beach in Thailand’s southern Phuket island.  (Saeed Khan AFP/Getty Images)

Western tourists flee Phuket beach after rumours spread of secondary tsunamis in southern Thailand.  (Saeed Khan AFP/Getty Images)

Thai residents, fearing more waves, sleep on the grass outside the Phuket City Hall.  (Paula Bronstein / Getty Images)

Workers search for belongings in the ruins the morning after a tidal wave hit along Pathong beach on southern Thailand’s Phuket island.  (Saheed Khan AFP/Getty Images)

A family of injured foreign tourists boards a pick-up truck after being evacuated from an island resort off Krabi, southern Thailand, a day after a tidal wave devastated the coastline.  (Roslan Rahman AFP/Getty Images)

A foreign boy is carried by a Thai rescue worker after being evacuated from a nearby island resort off Krabi, southern Thailand.  (Roslan Rahman AFP/Getty Images)