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The number of deaths from the tsunami is listed at about 16k (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by sskates 14y ago
The number of deaths from the tsunami is listed at about 16k (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and...). I'm surprised it was so high, but in general deaths from natural disasters are low in number, compared to regular things people die from like disease in old age.
- Someone 14y agoThat is the number of direct victims. My point is that there will have been people (elderly or otherwise physically weaker) who died a few weeks/months earlier than they would have if that earthquake hadn't struck, for example because they got a heart attack worrying whether their grandchildren survived. Such deaths both increase mortality in 2011 and decrease it in some time later.