According to data for the first half of Monday, the number of victims of the earthquake and the devastating tsunami that resulted from it in Sri Lanka reached 11,000 people, in India - 5,600, in Indonesia - 4,500, in Thailand - about a thousand. Although the approximate number of victims on the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar and Bangladesh has not yet been established.
In terms of the number of victims, Sunday's natural disaster came close to the Spitak tragedy of 1988, when an earthquake in Armenia claimed the lives of 25,000 people.
Recall that, according to experts' estimates, in terms of the power of the underground tremors, the earthquake in the Indian Ocean entered the top five strongest in the last hundred years.
Based on materials from RIA "Novosti", "BBCRussian"