KERALA, ANDHRA Pradesh, Puducherry, and Andaman and Nicobar islands of India.Tsunamis occur most often in the Pacific Ocean and Indonesia because the Pacific Rim bordering the Ocean has a large number of active submarine earthquake zones.However, tsunamis have also occurred recently in the Mediterranean Sea region and are expected in the Caribbean Sea as well. The 26 December 2004 tsunami significantly affected the coastal regions of southern peninsular India. About 8,835 human lives were LOST in the tsunami in mainland India, with 86 persons reported missing.The government has identified a list of regions on the country’s eastern coast that are highly vulnerable to a tsunami. These include Puri, Kakinada, Machilipatnam, Nizampatnam-Vatapalem, Chennai, Cuddalore-Puducherry, Rameshwaram, Thoothukudi, Alappuzha-Chavara, and Kochi.The coastline of Burma (Myanmar) is about 2,300 km long, and consists of three DISTINCT parts the western Arakan (Rakhine) coast, the southern Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) deltaic coast, and the north-south Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) strip.Myanmar, lying in a major seismic belt, is indeed earthquake-prone and is vulnerable to hazards from moderate and large magnitude earthquakes, including tsunami hazards along with its long coastal areas.The western Indian peninsula experienced the most DESTRUCTIVE tsunami ever recorded in the Arabian Sea by the 28th November 1945 earthquake (Mw 8.1) in the Makran region.The run-up height during the tsunami was 17m at the Makran coast and 11 to 11.5m in the Gulf of Kachchh region.