Saturday, December 26, 2009 BANDA ACEH: People across Asia will pause Saturday to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.A solemn day of prayers and remembrance to mark one of the world's worst natural disasters is to be held in Indonesia's Aceh province, which lost almost 170,000 people in the Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004.Prayers will be said in mosques throughout the staunchly Islamic province, and beside mass graves in the local capital of Banda Aceh.Similar scenes are expected to play out in countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Thailand where more than 50,000 people were killed as the wall of water smashed into coastal communities from Kalutara to Phuket.But as the survivors remember the dead, experts warn that many countries in the region remain ill-prepared to face another killer wave.The 2004 tsunami was triggered by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, and seis...
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