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Casualties

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)[reply]

Maths

O.k., so let's do the maths here:

"It resulted in 165–173 casualties"
"In Hilo, the death toll was high: 173 were killed"
Apparently there were at least another 24 people killed in the town of Keʻanae on Maui.

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)[reply]

It gets worse. The article Hilo says that 160 people were killed in the tsunami. The German WP says that 159 people were killed, which is the only number that would make any sense if the total of 173 is correct and another 24 were killed in Keʻanae. No good sources given anywhere, for any of these numbers. --87.150.9.250 (talk) 08:17, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

O.k., I found something. According to this source, page 5,

159 people were killed in Hawaii,
96 of those in Hilo.
24 people were killed in Laupahoehoe, Hawaii. No mention of Keʻanae on Maui. And it seems a bit too much of a coincidence to assume that exactly the same number of people, consisting of four school teachers and a lot of children, should be killed in both places. --87.150.9.250 (talk) 08:29, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

April Fool's Day prank

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)[reply]