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humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
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Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
The
humanitarian response
to the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
was prompted by one of the worst
natural disasters
of modern times. On 26 December 2004, the
earthquake
, which struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of
Sumatra
, generated a
tsunami
that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean. Particularly hard-hit were the countries of
Indonesia
,
Sri Lanka
, and
Thailand
. About 230,000 people were killed, tens of thousands more were injured, and 100 million became
homeless
and
displaced
.
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