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House Damaged by Tsunami, Sri Lanka

Photo: The Sri Lanka tsunami damaged this house near the train tracks.

A Sri Lankan woman collects personal items as her husband surveys damage to their coastal Colombo home two days after a tsunami swept through the Indian Ocean. Officials estimated that the tsunami forced more than one million Sri Lankans from their homes.

Photograph by Scott Barbour/Getty Images