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In other contexts "casualties" means deaths plus serious injuries (e.g., in war). Is it that or simply deaths here? -- 71.174.164.7 ( talk) 05:34, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
O.k., so let's do the maths here:
So how does that all add up to 165–173? To me, that's 197 people killed only in those two towns, and we haven't even checked if there were more people killed in other towns. -- 87.150.9.250 ( talk) 08:03, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
O.k., I found something. According to this source, page 5,
That comment on the naming doesn't make any sense. The only April Fool's Day prank I can imagine in this kind of context is giving a fake alarm about an imaginary tsunami. But only a sentence before that we learned that there were no warnings. Would anyone think this was an April Fool's Day prank when they saw the wave coming? -- 87.150.9.250 ( talk) 08:03, 15 November 2021 (UTC)