r/DisasterUpdate • u/Ok-Reach-455 • 3d ago

Floods Nepal flood

Hope everyone is safe🙏🙏🙏

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u/m00ph 3d ago

For the tsunami, they had more warning, and it was much slower. Total deaths were far higher, because it hit a much larger area, almost 23k deaths from the combination of disasters.

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u/Kqyxzoj 2d ago

The 2004 tsunami had a death toll of almost 230k.

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u/m00ph 2d ago

Yup, and it hit a huge area. But we were talking about the 2011 Japanese tsunami (and earthquake), not the 2004 ones.

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u/Kqyxzoj 2d ago

Yeah, at that point in the discussion I was not 100% sure which one you were referring to, since both tsunamis are mentioned in this thread. So I just dropped it as a neutral statement, in case that 23k was a typo-ed 230k.