Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
Brief Overview of the Disaster by Countries
On 26 Dec 2004, 00:58:53 UTC (7:58:53 am local time), a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The epi-centre was located under sea water at 3.32 N 95.85 E. This is the fourth largest earthquake in the world since 1900. The earthquake generated tsunamis which swept across the Indian Ocean within hours. Which affected 12 countries and took 186,983 lives. Hundreds of thousands of persons were displaced and over 3 million persons were affected, half of whom lost their sources of livelihood. The tsunami had the greatest impact on rural coastal communities, many of which were already poor and vulnerable and had few livelihood options. The hardest-hit and most severely affected countries were India, Indonesia, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Malaysia, Myanmar, Seychelles, Somalia and the United Republic of Tanzania were also affected.
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India
Displaced 650,000
Dead 16,389
Missing Not specified
Injured 6913
Housing Destroyed/Damaged 100,000
Total Damage and Losses (in USD) 2.1 billion
Note Total affected: 654,512 people
Indonesia
Displaced 532,898 homeless
Dead 165,708
Missing Not specified
Injured Not specified
Housing Destroyed/Damaged Not specified
Total Damage and Losses (in USD) 4451.6 million
Note Total affected: 523,898
Maldives
Displaced 13000 homeless
Dead 102
Missing Not specified
Injured 2214
Housing Destroyed/Damaged Not specified
Total Damage and Losses ( in USD) 470.1 million
Note Total affected: 27,214
Sri Lanka
Displaced 480,000
Dead 35,399
Missing Not specified
Injured 23176
Housing Destroyed/Damaged 114,069
Total Damage and Losses (in USD) 1316.5 million
Note Total affected:1,019,306
Thailand
Displaced Not specified
Dead 8,345
Missing Not specified
Injured 8,457
Housing Destroyed/Damaged 4,806
Total Damage and Losses ( in USD) 405.2 million
Note Total affected:67,007
Myanmar
Displaced Not specified
Dead 71
Missing Not specified
Injured Not specified
Housing Destroyed/Damaged Not specified
Total Damage and Losses (in USD) 500 million
Note Total Affected: 12,500
Somaliya
Displaced Not specified
Dead 298
Missing Not specified
Injured 283
Housing Destroyed/Damaged Not specified
Total Damage and Losses ( in USD) 100 million
Note Total affected: 105, 083
GLIDE No.
India TS-2004-000147-IND
Indonesia TS-2004-000147-IDN
Maldives TS-2004-000147-MDV
Sri Lanka TS-2004-000147-LKA
Thailand TS-2004-000147-THA
Myanmar TS-2004-000147-MMR
Somaliya TS-2004-000147-SOM
morePublications
Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome
- Building on Success:Effectively Responding to Multiple Disasters (PDF, 4.2MB)
JAVA RECONSTRUCTION FUND PROGRESS REPORT 2011 2011 - Housing reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and Nias (PDF, 3.1MB)
Rebuilding lives 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Empowering People After Natural Disasters, Governance
Lessons from the Post-Tsunami Legal Assistance, Governance, and Anticorruption Project in Sri Lanka 2010 [ADB] - Five years after the tsunami: MDF report (PDF, 3.6MB)
Continuing the commitment to reconstruction in Aceh 2009 [The World Bank] - Mangroves for the Future (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [IUCN] - Linking environmental management and disaster mitigation (PDF, 361.2KB)
2007 [UNEP] - International assistance for recovery: UN institutional and regulatory mechanism for post disaster recovery (PDF, 3.3MB)
Role of the United Nations System in humanitarian assistance for disaster reduction and response: Lessons learned from the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and support for the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 2007 - Organizational and institutional arrangements : Indonesia (PDF, 460.6KB)
2007 [BRR] - Aceh economic rehabilitation and reconstruction strategy (PDF, 39.2KB)
2007 [BRR] - Back to business in a conducive environment (PDF, 685.7KB)
GTZ-supported economic reconstruction in Aceh in the frame of German development cooperation 2007 [GTZ] - Post disaster livelihood planning - the Sri Lanka experience (PDF, 541.4KB)
2007 [ILO] - Rebuilding a safer Aceh against earthquake hazard (PDF, 2.2MB)
2007 - Measuring shelter recovery in Aceh - Indonesia (PDF, 309.7KB)
Was community recovery achieved? Are communities less vulnerable? 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Two years after the Tsunami (Aceh and Nias) (PDF, 219.9KB)
2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Reconstruction in Pakistan (PDF, 1MB)
2007 - Post Tsunami restoration (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) (PDF, 6.4MB)
2007 - Rebuilding homes and communities after disasters (PDF, 1.9MB)
Supporting a people's process of recovery 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Learning from disaster recovery (PDF, 2.7MB)
keynote speech 2007 - Recovery reports: Thailand (from Indian Ocean Tsunami 2004) (PDF, 2.3MB)
2007 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand] - Progress in building an "end-to-end" Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System (PDF, 498.5KB)
2007 [UNESCO] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: India (PDF, 1.5MB)
Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami; The Indian experience 2007 [NDMA] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Maldives (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Sri Lanka (PDF, 3.2MB)
2007 [Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, Sri Lanka] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Indonesia (PDF, 3.3MB)
Lessons learned and recovering from tsunami disaster 2007 [State Ministry Of Research And Technology, Indonesia] - Rehabilitation support to Indian Ocean Tsunami; Were lessons learned from Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake utilized? (PDF, 741.9KB)
2008 [JICA] - Recent recovery experience with regards to the integration of environment and climate change concerns, Thailand (PDF, 2.4MB)
2009 [Ministry of Interior, Thailand] - Aceh and Nias BRR Presentation (PDF, 527.1KB)
2008 [BRR] - Indonesia: Notes on reconstruction the December 26, 2004 natural disaster (PDF, 2.2MB)
A technical report prepared by BAPPENAS and the international donor community 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Resilient recovery processes that take into account ecosystem and ecosystem service, Maldives (PDF, 887.7KB)
2009 [Ministry of Defence and National Security, Maldives] - Examining Traditional & Alternate Livelihood Interventions Post Tsunami among women from the fishing community in Nagapattinam
- Local governance in tsunami recovery: Lessons learned and emerging principles (PDF, 138.4KB)
2006 [UNDP] - 10 Management Lessons for Host Governments Coordinating Post-disaster Reconstruction (PDF, 3MB)
Executing Agency for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (BRR) of Aceh–Nias 2005–2009 2009 [BRR] - Asian Tsunami: Aid and Reconstruction after a Disaster
2010 - Tsunami Communities Reborn (PDF, 1.4MB)
Rebuilding Livelihoods Better than Before 2005 [FAO] - Enriching the Construction of the Recovery
The Executing Agency for the Rehabilitation and. Reconstruction of Aceh and the Nias Islands 2008 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Supervision - Eradicating Corruption with No Tolerance (PDF, 6MB)
SUPERVISION-Eradicating Corruption with No Tolerance 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Finance - The Seven Keys to Effective Aid Management (PDF, 4.8MB)
Finance - The Seven Keys to Effective Aid Management 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Story - Feat of the Daunting Launch (PDF, 6.7MB)
Feat of the Daunting Launch 2009 [BRR] - Aceh and Nia One Year after the Tsunami
The Recovery Effort and Way Forward 2005 [BRR, UN] - Building a Land of Hope: One Year Report Executing Agency of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias
One Year Report Executing Agency of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias 2006 [BRR] - Aceh and Nias: Two Years After the Tsunami
2006 PROGRESS REPORT 2006 [BRR] - Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia (PDF, 2.4MB)
Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias: A Retrospective 2010 [ADB] - BRR Book Series - Institution - Laying the Foundation of Good Government (PDF, 3.8MB)
Laying the Foundation of Good Government 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Education Health Women Empowerment - Preparing Quality Generation (PDF, 4.5MB)
Preparing Quality Generation 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Economy - Turning the Wheel of Life (PDF, 5.8MB)
Turning the Wheel of Life 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Infrastructure - Stimulating the Triggerring Sector (PDF, 4.4MB)
Stimulating the Triggerring Sector 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Housing- Roofing the Pillars of Hope (PDF, 5.7MB)
HOUSING - Roofing the Pillars of Hope 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Case Study (addition) - The Scattered Beads (PDF, 3.2MB)
CASE STUDY - The Scattered Beads 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Case Study (main) - The Scattered Beads (PDF, 4MB)
CASE STUDY - The Scattered Beads 2009 [BRR] - BRR Book Series - Breakthrough - Thousands of Paths toward Resolution (PDF, 6.6MB)
Thousands of Paths toward Resolution 2009 [BRR] - Tsunami recovery in Maldives (PDF, 2.5MB)
2005 [UNDP, UNEP, UN/OCHA, UN, ADB, WHO] - Aceh and Nias One Year after the Tsunami (PDF, 4MB)
2005 [BRR] - Guiding Principles for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 413.1KB)
2005 [UNEP] - India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami: Livelihoods (PDF, 49.2KB)
2006 [SEEDS Asia] - India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami (PDF, 322.4KB)
2005 - Tsunami, Gender, and Recovery (PDF, 450.7KB)
2005 - Women, Community Radio, and Post Disaster Recovery Process (PDF, 677.9KB)
2007 - Guidelines for Reconstruction of Houses Affected by the Tsunami (PDF, 1.1MB)
General and Public Buildings (Masonry) 2007 [UNDP] - Delivering Results in Post Disaster Recovery through Effective Financial Management, the Case of Aceh and Nias (PDF, 582KB)
2008 [BRR] - Boat rebuilding in Aceh (PDF, 5.4MB)
2005 [FAO] - Aquaculture Farm Rehabilitation post tsunami : FAO (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [FAO] - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
2010 [DEC] - Empowering People After Natural Disasters (PDF, 468.9KB)
Lessons from the Post-Tsunami Legal Assistance, Governance, and Anticorruption Project in Sri Lanka 2010 [ADB] - Design of Safe Shelters post tsunami (PDF, 1.2MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Housing reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia—Rebuilding lives (PDF, 3.1MB)
2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Status of coral reefs in tsunami affected areas (PDF, 5.9MB)
2006 - Recovery from the Tsunami: Microfinance: Grammen Foundation (PDF, 1MB)
2005 - Tsunami recovery: after 6 months: PLAN (PDF, 2.7MB)
2005 - Tsunami recovery: after 18 months: PLAN (PDF, 2.3MB)
2006 - Tsunami recovery: first 12 months: PLAN (PDF, 2.4MB)
2005 - Six month report: Mercy Corps Tsunami (PDF, 477.3KB)
2005 - Report on spending of tsunami funds (PDF, 2.4MB)
2005 - Rehab of fisheries post tsunami after one year (PDF, 178.7KB)
2006 [FAO] - Rehabilitation of fisheries and aquaculture in tsunami affected areas (PDF, 131.3KB)
2005 [FAO] - Paper on reconstruction: Indonesia post tsunami (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [BAPPENAS] - Lessons Learned and Best Practices post tsunami: Thailand (PDF, 71.4KB)
2005 [UN/OCHA] - Lessons from tsunami (PDF, 4.6MB)
2005 [IFRC] - Key Propositions for Building Back Better: Clinton (PDF, 3.1MB)
2006 - Tsunami Recovery - A joint UN report - India (PDF, 1.1MB)
2006 [UN] - India tsunami recovery (PDF, 4.2MB)
2006 [ADB] - Health recovery post tsunami (PDF, 8.2MB)
2005 [WHO] - Health consequences of the tsunami (PDF, 43.6KB)
2005 [WHO] - Forest recovery post tsunami: Sri Lanka (PDF, 161.4KB)
2006 [FAO] - Forest recovery post tsunami: Maldives (PDF, 223.6KB)
2006 [FAO] - Forestry recovery post tsunami: Indonesia: FAO (PDF, 242.6KB)
2006 [FAO] - Joint evaluation of the international response to the tsunami 2004 (PDF, 1.5MB)
2006 - Rapid Environmental Assessment post tsunami (PDF, 9.3MB)
2005 [UNEP] - Building Back Better after tsunami: UNICEF (PDF, 3MB)
2005 - Tsunami Recovery and Impact Assessment (PDF, 3.4MB)
2006 [IFRC, WHO] - Tsunami 12 Months After: PLAN International (PDF, 1.8MB)
2007 - Private Sector and Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 2.2MB)
2005 - Oxfam International Tsunami Fund | Second year report (PDF, 1.7MB)
2006 [Oxfam International] - Post Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction Sri Lanka RADA (PDF, 139.8KB)
2006 - Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for the Asian tsunami (PDF, 3MB)
2005 [UN] - ILO Strategy for Reconstruction and Recovery: Tsunami (PDF, 484KB)
2005 [ILO] - Drawing on the experience of the Indian Ocean tsunami (PDF, 889.5KB)
2006 [UN/ISDR] - One year after the tsunami: Maldives (PDF, 3.6MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Tsunami Relief and Reconstruction through eyes of children (PDF, 1.5MB)
2005 - Through the Eyes of Children: Tsunami recovery (PDF, 1MB)
2005 - Response to tsunami: 6 months (PDF, 689.9KB)
2005 - Shelter after tsunami (PDF, 454.5KB)
2005 - Rebuilding livelihoods better than before (PDF, 1.5MB)
2005 [FAO] - Environment and Reconstruction in Aceh 2 years (PDF, 2.5MB)
2007 [UNEP] - Post tsunami construction manual (PDF, 581.1KB)
2006 - Building Back Better For Our Children - UNTRS (PDF, 482.8KB)
2006 [UN] - Assessment of Post-Tsunami Housing Reconstruction in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, A People's Perspective (PDF, 841.6KB)
2006 - Two Years After the Tsunami (PDF, 5.6MB)
2006 [UN] - Approaches to Equity in Post-Tsunami Assistance (PDF, 426.3KB)
2006 [DFID] - Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - After the Tsunami: Sustainable Building Guides for Southeast Asia (PDF, 639.7KB)
2007 [UNEP] - Defining Success: Tsunami Recovery in the Maldives, 2004-2006 (PDF, 3.6MB)
2006 - Evolving Strategies for Long-Term Rehabilitation on Shelter and Habitat Development in the Tsuanami Affected Areas of Tamil Nadu (PDF, 3.2MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Rebuilding a Better Aceh and Nias Stocktaking of the Reconstruction Effort (PDF, 4.6MB)
2005 [BRR] - Preliminary Impact Evaluation of the Transitional Shelter Programme in Aceh Province, Indonesia (PDF, 433.7KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Sri Lanka: Post Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction (PDF, 1MB)
2005 [IFRC] - POST-TSUNAMI LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES WORKSHOP (PDF, 256.9KB)
2005 - EU contribution to international response to 2004 Tsunami: Lessons (PDF, 79.4KB)
2005 [European Commission] - ISDR-BIBLIO: tsunami (PDF, 1.8MB)
2006 [UN/ISDR] - Lessons Learned and Best Practices in tsunami response: UN (PDF, 68.1KB)
2005 - UNCT Support of Government of India for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 457.9KB)
2005 - Disease impact post tsunami (PDF, 2MB)
2005 - Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction: Aceh (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [UNDP] - Recovery from tsunami: one year later (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Post tsunami recovery: CARE (PDF, 1.1MB)
2005 [CARE] - Post Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction (PDF, 139.8KB)
2006 - Rapid assessment of the tsunami's impact on livelihoods (PDF, 2.1MB)
2005 [ILO] - Cash for Work Program Post-Tsunami (PDF, 958.7KB)
2005 - Improving Employment and Livelihood Post Tsunami (PDF, 5.4MB)
2005 [ILO] - Rehabilitation of fisheries and aquaculture post tsunami (PDF, 131.3KB)
2005 [FAO] - Coastal Ecosystem Restoration after tsunami: Lessons Learnt (PDF, 3.8MB)
2007 [UNEP] - RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT BANDA ACEH (PDF, 2.9MB)
2005 - Assessment of Damage to Coral Reefs from tsunami (PDF, 1.6MB)
2005 - Mangroves in tsunami recovery (PDF, 919.2KB)
2005 [IUCN] - Environmental Stories: After Tsunami
2006 [IUCN] - IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF SMALL BUILDINGS (PDF, 924.5KB)
2005 - Post Tsunami governance (PDF, 3.2MB)
2005 - Post-Tsunami Lessons Learned and Best Practices (PDF, 100.1KB)
2005 - POST-TSUNAMI LESSONS LEARNED AND BEST PRACTICES (PDF, 112KB)
2005 - MASTER PLAN for reconstruction: Indonesia post Tsunami (PDF, 2.2MB)
2005 - Post-Tsunami Recovery and Reconstruction (PDF, 1MB)
2005 - Mental health impacts of tsunami for recovery (PDF, 28.4KB)
2005 [WHO] - Shelter projects 2008 (PDF, 46.7MB)
2008 [IFRC, UN-HABITAT] - The Tsunami Legacy (PDF, 5.8MB)
Innovation, Breakthroughs and Change 2009 [IFRC] - Indonesia: Preliminary damage and loss assessment (PDF, 3.1MB)
The December 26, 2004 natural disaster 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Tsunami: Impact and recovery (PDF, 309.2KB)
Maldives post-Tsunami damage and needs assessment 2005 [The World Bank] - India: Post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 1.9MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Survivors of the Tsunami: One year later (PDF, 2.1MB)
UNDP Assisting Communities to Build Back Better 2005 [UNDP] - UNDP's initial response to the Tsunami in Indonesia (PDF, 1.1MB)
End of mission report January-March 2005 2005 [UNDP] - Sri Lanka 2005 post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 551.8KB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Supporting communities to rebuild in Sri Lanka (PDF, 407.3KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Community participation in rebuilding in the Maldives (PDF, 401.2KB)
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moreRecovery Cases & Reports
- From floods to tsunami. disaster- an opportunity' sustained engagement in disaster risk management at local level leading to national policy dialogue
2005 [UNDP] - Forearmed for surviving natural disasters
2005 [UNDP] - Rebuilding the shattered lives and livelihoods of Malaysia's tsunami victims: UNDP making a difference
2005 [UNDP] - Joint UN Agency response to the immediate humanitarian needs of the tsunami affected Acehnese
2005 [UNDP] - View all