Dramatic photos show Indonesia's redevelopment following devastating 2004 tsunami

Thursday, December 11, 2014, 4:27 PM - On Boxing Day 2004, the world stood still as a powerful earthquake in the Indian Ocean set off a massive tsunami, slamming into more a dozen countries with the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.

The quake measured 9.1 on the Richter scale, making it the third-largest earthquake recorded on a seismograph in history.

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More than 230,000 people in fourteen countries were killed, with Banda-aceh, Indonesia among the hardest hit areas.

Now, ten years later, a series of photographs shows how far the area has come.