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Upon learning about Chau's death, the fishermen returned to Port Blair and gave Chau's diary to his friend, also a Christian preacher, residing in the capital city. [20] He informed Chau's family in the U.S., who contacted the Consulate General of the United States in Chennai for assistance. [20] The Andaman government was notified on November ...
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 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 Thai government reports 5,395 confirmed deaths, 8,457 injuries and 2,817 missing on 20 June 2005. Damage was confined to the six southern provinces facing the Andaman Sea. The Thai government was keen to point out that the rest of the country was operating normally, and that even some resorts in the south had re-opened.
The Andaman Islands (/ ... M. M. Kaye's 1985 novel Death in the Andamans [68] and Marianne Wiggins' 1989 novel John Dollar are set in the islands. [69]
There was an unspecified number of deaths only described as "few". Shaking was felt over a very wide area; felt reports also came from Colombo, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai. [3] Islands located in a passage between Little Andaman and South Andaman Islands subsided by over 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in). [2]
The 2009 Andaman Islands earthquake occurred on August 11 at 19:55 UTC in the Andaman Islands of India. [1] The earthquake magnitude was recorded as 7.5 M w, and was the strongest in the region since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. [2]
2014 Andaman boat disaster was an incident which occurred on 26 January 2014, when a tourist boat capsized near Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, killing 22 people. [1] The boat "Aqua Marine" was carrying 45 tourists from Tamil Nadu and Mumbai .