Natural disasters such as the earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 have also caused reef loss.

诸如2004年触发印度洋海啸的地震这样的自然灾难也会导致珊瑚礁损失。

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Only in 2005, following the Indian Ocean tsunami, did it adopt an agreement obliging members to help one another in natural calamities.

只是在2005年发生印度洋海啸后，东盟才达成了一项让该组织的成员国在遭受自然灾害侵袭时彼此帮助的协议。

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A tsunami in the Indian Ocean caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused parts of Maldives to be covered by sea water and left many people homeless.

2004年由印度洋地震所导致的印度洋海啸使马尔代夫多处被海水侵蚀，让许多人无家可归。

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For example, areas with mangrove forests were not damaged as badly by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand four.

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And a quake and tsunami off Aceh in 2004 led to more than 200,000 deaths around the Indian Ocean.

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And from countrymen who only five years ago survived the worst natural disaster to hit the world in decades, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

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She took the position to support her family after they were displaced by the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

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Incidents such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, have provided deadly evidence of the power of nature to wreak destruction and throw human communities into chaos.

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Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.

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