[HeartlandOfAmerica]

I just read that of the 230,000 killed in the Indonesian tsunami, that only 184,000 bodies were found.

I'm not sure they're exactly the same thing Bunny. In 2004 the earthquake happened far out at sea, indonesia? Then the tsunami hit.

Here the earthquake hit, brought down the buildings on a lot of people that can't be gotten to now, then the wave hit.

Just saying that there might be a lot of bodies under all that rubble that won't be found for weeks or months yet.

[BunnySlippers]

Japan’s earthquake happened at sea and was shallow. But Japan was far more prepared and the buildings were more stable.

The scenario in quake/tsunamis is that the quake breaks up or destablizes the building. But the tsunami does the major damage by denuding the landscape.

I see them as very similar but the point being that there will probably be about the same percentage of missing persons in the end. But, there are definately a lot of deceased in all the debris.