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Although the provisional death toll of 25 000 is one-tenth that of both the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami in 2004 and the Haiti earthquake last year, the tragedy has deeply traumatized the population.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
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UNESCO-IOC established the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System following the 2004 earthquake and tsunami off the shores of Indonesia that took the lives of over 200, 000 people.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
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The fear is that it turns out to be the worst natural disaster since the Kashmir earthquake of 2005, when 86, 000 died, or even the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 that killed 230, 000.
ECONOMIST: The earthquake in Haiti