On December 26, 2004 a tsunami in the Indian Ocean devastated the coastlines of 14 countries, killing 227,898 people, including 26 Australians.
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00:00On December 26, 2004, a tsunami in the Indian Ocean devastated the coastlines of 14 countries.
00:15It killed 227,898 people, including 26 Australians.
00:22It cost $10 billion in damages and is considered the deadliest natural disaster of the 21st
00:30The youngest Australian victim was Melina Happel, who was just six months old.
00:35She was swept out of her father Peter's arms when the tsunami hit Patong Beach in Thailand.
00:41Melbourne AFL player Troy Broadbridge died on Phi Phi Island while on his honeymoon with
00:47his new wife, Trisha.
00:49Mui Vogel was also on her honeymoon when she died.
00:53She had called her family on Christmas Day to give them the news that she was pregnant.
00:58The tsunami was caused by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Aceh
01:04in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
01:07That earthquake was the third most powerful in history behind the 9.5 magnitude earthquake
01:13that hit Chile in 1960 and Alaska's devastating 9.2 earthquake in 1964.