Twenty years on from the deadly Boxing Day tsunami

For ten straight minutes, the entire planet shook violently, sending seismic waves across itself that changed the world for the worse.

In the wake of the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004, caused by the third most powerful earthquake ever recorded, countless images of piled up dead bodies, partially rotted from their time floating in blackened seawater, from far-flung lands splashed newspapers and led the evening news across the world.

While much of the world was safe from one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history, much of , which suffered 180,000 confirmed deaths, is still reeling from its impact to this day.

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