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The estimated number of deaths is 75 with five others missing. [3] Maldives. In the Maldives, an confirmed 82 people were killed and 26 reported missing and presumed dead. [4] [5] 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 ...
The Andaman Islands were moderately affected while the island of Little Andaman and the Nicobar Islands were severely affected by the tsunami. In South Andaman Island , based on local eyewitnesses, there were three tsunami waves, with the third being the most destructive.
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of deaths. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.
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 list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise. Many developing countries have far higher proportions of young people, and lower proportions of older people, than some developed countries, and thus may have much higher age-specific mortality rates while having lower crude mortality rates.
This is a list of island countries. An island is a landmass (smaller than a continent ) that is surrounded by water. [ 1 ] Many island countries are spread over an archipelago , as is the case with Indonesia , Japan , and the Philippines —these countries consist of thousands of islands.
The capital city of the Andaman Islands, Port Blair. Port Blair is the chief community on the islands, and the administrative centre of the Union Territory. The Andaman Islands form a single administrative district within the Union Territory, the Andaman district (the Nicobar Islands were separated and established as the new Nicobar district in ...
Diglipur, Andaman and Nicobar Islands: 6.6 M w: VI 10 Buildings damaged [16] [17] 2009-08-10: Andaman Islands: 7.5 M w: VIII Tsunami warning issued 2009-03-26 Jharkhand: 4.1 M w: V 5 Buildings damaged [18] 2008-09-16 Satara district, Maharashtra: 5.0 M w: VI 1 20 1,500 buildings damaged. [19] 2008-02-06 West Bengal: 4.3 M b: 1 50 Buildings ...