In pictures: Asian quake disaster

1 of 12 The devastation of Sunday's quake continues to emerge. In the Thai resort of Khao Lak, the bodies of 700 mainly foreign tourists have been found.

2 of 12 Huge waves - some up to 10m (33ft) high - swept away buildings and picked up cars on the island of Phuket.

3 of 12 The smell from dead bodies is overwhelming on the island of Phi Phi, as survivors from Sunday's tsunami wait to leave.

4 of 12 Indonesia was particularly hard-hit. Bodies still lie in the streets of Banda Aceh - other towns and villages have not yet even been reached.

5 of 12 In the town of Meulaboh in Aceh aerial surveillance has found little sign of life.

6 of 12 Aceh province, near the epicentre of the original tremor, got the full force of both the quake and the tsunami.

7 of 12 In Sri Lanka, also badly hit, bodies are having to be burned or buried before they can be identified.

8 of 12 An increasingly hopeless search for survivors goes on in Sri Lanka, where up to 20,000 may have died.

9 of 12 Refugees are evacuated out of India's Andaman and Nicobar islands - directly in the path of the tsunami waves. It is feared 7,000 people may have died on the vulnerable islands.

10 of 12 In southern India too, bodies washed onto the shores in the aftermath of the sea surge.

11 of 12 A massive aid effort is under way in the country.

12 of 12 Fresh trauma awaits many of the millions displaced by the waves, as they try to find shelter, water and food, and cope with the psychological effects of their experiences.