Fishing boats and a car are destroyed by waves at the Langkawi, a resort island in northwestern Malaysia, Dec. 26, 2004.
An unidentified woman cries after tidal waves destroyed her house on the coastal areas in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26, 2004.
People walk through debris of their houses destroyed in tidal waves on the coastal areas in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 26, 2004. Massive sea waves, apparently triggered by oceanic earthquakes, crashed into coastal villages over a wide area of Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 300 people and displacing 100,000 others.
A foriegner inspects the damage done by the Dec 26 earthquake-triggered tidal waves which hit the island of Phuket, Thailand, Dec 27, 2004.
A man talks on his phone near smashed cars along Patong Beach, Dec. 27, 2004, in Phuket, Thailand. Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing Monday as the Thai prime minister said that up to 700 people perished when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated idyllic resort areas of southern Thailand.
An unidentified person places a flower garland over a girl who was killed by tidal waves, as her mother, left, and father, without shirt, mourn during their daughter's burial in Cuddalore, India, Dec. 27, 2004.
Villagers looks at the dead fish lying on a shore after tidal waves hit Penang Island, northwestern Malaysia, Dec. 27, 2004.
An aerial view of the destroyed town of Hikkaduwa, 44 miles south of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec. 27, 2004.
An unidentified person carries his son as relatives and others grieve at the site of a mass burial at Cuddalore, India, Dec. 27, 2004.
Villagers walk past houses and vehicles destroyed by tidal waves at Velankanni near Nagappattinam, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Dec. 27, 2004.
Tourists make their way through a totally damaged seaside area on the Phi Phi Island after giant waves swept through this famous tourist resort in Krabi province, southern Thailand, Dec. 27, 2004.
The body of a foreign tourist is left on a trolly in a damaged commercial district on the Phi Phi Island after giant waves swept through this famous tourist resort in Krabi province, southern Thailand, Dec. 27, 2004.
Relatives of victims who were killed by tidal waves mourn at a mass burial site in Cuddalore, India, Dec. 27, 2004.
A mother cries near the bodies of her children who were killed in tidal waves at the government hospital at Nagappattinam, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Dec. 27, 2004.