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The highest death toll was in Hafun, with 19 dead and 160 people presumed missing out of its 5,000 inhabitants. This was the highest number of casualties in a single African town and the largest tsunami death toll in a single town to the west of the Indian subcontinent. Small drawbacks were observed before the third and most powerful tsunami ...
The estimated number of deaths is 75 with five others missing. [2] Maldives. In the Maldives, an confirmed 82 people were killed and 26 reported missing and presumed dead. [3] [4] Myanmar. Independent media reported 90 people killed in Myanmar due to the tsunami. The official death toll is 61. Witnesses in Myanmar estimated up to 600 deaths ...
Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, ... In Thailand, beach resort tourists comprised about half of the nation’s death toll of 5,000, while in Sri Lanka, nearly ...
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia, triggering the worst tsunami in recorded history. According to United Nations estimates, more than 220,000 people were killed ...
The islands were just north of the earthquake epicentre, and the tsunami reached a height of 15 metres (49 ft) in the southern Nicobar Islands. The official death toll was 1,310, with about 5,600 missing. The unofficial death toll (including those missing and presumed dead) was estimated at 7,000.
The tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004 was triggered by a 9.1 magnitude quake off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, sending waves as high as 17.4 meters (57 feet) slamming into coastlines of Indonesia ...
The effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Somalia was significant. Coastal and rural communities in Somalia, as far as 4,500 km (2,800 mi) from the epicentre of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, were swept away or destroyed by the resulting tsunami on 26 December 2004. As of 5 January 2005, the confirmed death toll stood at 298.
Twenty years after the 2004 tsunami, a BBC reporter who was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands looks back. ... The official death toll was put at 1,310 – but with more than 5,600 people missing ...