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  2. Humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake

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    Oman sent relief goods worth US$3M for the victims of tsunami in Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia. Ali Ibrahim Shanoon Al-Raisi, executive director of Oman Charitable Organization (OCC), the country's Red Crescent, said four consignments carrying 300 tonnes of goods each had already been flown to Sri Lanka and Maldives in three days during ...

  3. List of disasters by cost - Wikipedia

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    This is in part due to the difficulty of measuring the financial damage in areas that lack insurance. For example, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, with a death toll of around 230,000 people, cost a 'mere' $15 billion, [1] whereas in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in which 11 people died, the damage was six times higher.

  4. Cost of goods available for sale - Wikipedia

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    Cost of goods available for sale is the maximum amount of goods, or inventory, that a company can possibly sell during an accounting period.It has the formula: [1] Beginning Inventory (at the start of accounting period) + purchases (within the accounting period) + Production (within the accounting period) = cost of goods available for sale

  5. Does homeowners insurance cover tsunami damage? - AOL

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    The cost of the damage caused by earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the resulting tsunamis can be high. ... There is typically a 30-day waiting period between when you purchase coverage and when ...

  6. 20 years later: A look at the deadliest disaster to strike ...

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    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 ...

  7. 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami - Wikipedia

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    A massive tsunami with waves up to 30 m (100 ft) high, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami after the Boxing Day holiday, or as the Asian Tsunami, [10] devastated communities along the surrounding coasts of the Indian Ocean, killing an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries, violently in Aceh , and severely in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu , and Khao Lak ...

  8. Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times' - AOL

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    Boxing Day tsunami - 'I missed death five times' Alex Pope - BBC News, Hertfordshire. December 26, 2024 at 2:45 AM. Ducan Rigley said after the tsunami he did not want to return to Sri Lanka ...

  9. Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on Myanmar

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    Official reports from the government of Myanmar (Burma) cite a death toll of 90 due to the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004. [1] However, some estimates put the toll at between 400 and 600.