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lies in ruins]] This article lists the countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and the resulting Tsunami in alphabetical order – for detailed information about each country see their individual articles. Countries with a smaller number of casualties, as well as those which have lost citizens who were travelling abroad, are listed further on in the article. For a table showing figures on people dead, missing and displaced, click here. COUNTRIES SUFFERING MAJOR CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE ; Effect On India : : According to the table of casualties on the Home Ministry website 10,749 casualties have been confirmed on the 18th January 2005, most of them in the state of Tamil Nadu . There were 5,640 people missing, nearly all of them on the Andaman And Nicobar Islands . In the meantime the death toll has been slashed down by 1,458, and the number of missing by 2,927 on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DEL45567.htm]. ; Effect On Indonesia : : Indonesia 's Ministry of Health confirmed 131,028 deaths on June 18th 2005, mainly in the northern province Aceh of the island Sumatra . The number of people missing are some 37,000. ; Effect On Malaysia : :Despite its proximity to the incident, Malaysia escaped the kind of damage that struck countries thousands of miles further away. The number of deaths currently stands at 69 with 5 people missing. ; Effect On The Maldives : :In the Maldives , 82 were killed and 26 reported missing and presumed dead. ; Effect On Myanmar : :Independent media reports 90 people killed in Myanmar due to the tsunami. The official death toll is 61. Witnesses in Myanmar estimate up to 600 deaths. ; Effect On Somalia : :Villages and coastal communities in Somalia , as far as 4,500 km (2,800 mi) from the epicentre of the earthquake, were swept away and destroyed by the huge waves. 176 people were confirmed dead, 136 were missing and more than 50,000 have been displaced. ; Effect On Sri Lanka : : Sri Lanka n authorities report 31,229 confirmed deaths, and 4,093 people missing. Other authorities are speaking from 38,940 combined dead and missing people. The south and east coasts were worst hit. Nearly 2,000 of the dead were suffered on the '' Queen Of The Sea '' holiday train which was destroyed by the tsumani. One and a half million people have been Displaced from their homes, and many have been orphaned or separated from their families. ; Effect On Thailand : :The . The Thai government is keen to point out that the rest of the country is operating normally, and that even some resorts in the south have now re-opened. COUNTRIES SUFFERING SOME CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE COUNTRIES SUFFERING DAMAGE ONLY COUNTRIES THAT LOST CITIZENS WHILE ABROAD Below is a list of countries, mostly from outside the Indian Ocean region, who have reported dead or missing nationals as result of the disaster. A - J K - R S - Z DETECTION OF THE TSUNAMI OUTSIDE THE INDIAN OCEAN REGION It is reported that in Maoming , Guangdong , China , underground waterways and wells were filled with lots of unusually big catfish (塘虱) on 28 December . Half an hour after the earthquake, waves as high as 20cm occurred at fish ponds and wells in Maoming and Meizhou when there was no wind. ( HKET , Maoming Daily) EXTERNAL LINKS
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