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There were over 16,000 deaths and about 6,000 injuries.

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The USGS reports 20,896 fatalities for this disaster which also includes totals due to the 9.0 earthquake that triggered the tsunami and the hundreds of aftershocks. There is no possible way to separate how many people died from the earthquake or from the tsunami.

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