2004-2005 Asia Tsunami

Relief begins Survivors and rescuers are battling through the devastation left by sea surges that killed more than 20,000 people on Asia’s southern shores. Mass graves are being dug even as families search desperately for missing relatives and soldiers recover bodies washed high into trees. Sunday’s 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the biggest of 40 years, sent huge waves from Malaysia to Africa. Photo by Danny Avison/Visual/ZUMA Press

CHIANGMAI, Thailand (BP)--As Asia's battered coasts began to reveal the enormity of the death and devastation caused by the biggest earthquake in 40 years, Southern Baptist relief workers began working with others to aid the survivors.