Around 9,000 foreigners are killed,missing or unaccounted for in the tsunami triggered by a strong earthquake off an Indonesia island.

The earthquake, with a magnitude of 8.7 over the Richter scale according to China's State Seismological Bureau, occurred at 06:58 a.m. (0058 GMT) on Dec. 26 off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The death toll now is more than 145,000.????

Following is a list of foreigners killed or reported missing sofar in the disaster:

Argentina:

2 dead, 1 reported missing, 3 unaccounted for.

Australia:

14 dead, 72 missing, about 560 unaccounted for.

Austria:

10 confirmed dead, at least 385 missing, 206 unaccounted for.

Belgium:

6 dead, 65 missing, about 250 unaccounted for.

Brazil:

2 killed.

Britain:

41 reported killed, 159 unaccounted for.

Canada:

5 dead, 146 missing.

Chile:

7 missing.

China:

15 confirmed dead. (Three from the mainland, nine from Hong Kong, three from Taiwan)

Colombia:

1 baby girl killed in Malaysia.

Croatia:

1 dead, 1 missing.

The Czech Republic:

1 dead, about 7 reported missing, 10 unaccountable.

Denmark:

At least 7 dead, 57 missing.

Finland:

1 confirmed dead, 177 missing.

France:

22 killed, 99 missing, 560 unaccounted for.

Germany:

60 dead, about 1,000 missing.

Greece:

9 missing.

Hungary:

10 unaccounted for.

Iceland:

11 missing.

Ireland:

1 confirmed dead, 20 unaccounted for.

Israel:

4 dead, about 7 missing.

Italy:

At least 20 dead, about 338 missing.

Japan:

23 reported killed, 528 people unaccounted for.

Luxembourg:

2 missing.

Malta:

1 missing.

Mexico:

15 reported missing.

The Netherlands:

7 dead, 30 missing, 120 unaccounted for.

New Zealand:

2 reported killed, 4 missing, 50 unaccounted for.

Norway:

12 dead, 80 unaccounted for.

Poland:

5 dead, 30 missing.

Portugal:

8 missing.

Romania:

2 missing.

Russia:

10 killed, about 29 unaccounted for.

Singapore:

7 dead, 15 missing, 23 unaccounted for.

South Africa:

9 killed, 6 missing, 880 unaccounted for.

South Korea:

11 dead, 9 missing.

Spain:

3 missing.

Sweden:

52 confirmed dead, 702 missing, 1,201 unaccounted for.

Switzerland:

23 killed, 105 missing, 400 unaccounted for.

Turkey:

1 dead, 9 missing.

The United States:

At least 36 dead.