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Date Region Mag. MMI Fatalities Injuries Comments Notes 2024-09-18: West Java: 5.0 M w: VII 2 159 656 buildings damaged [1] [2]2024-09-07 Bali: 4.8 M w: VI 1 3 10 buildings damaged.
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The 2016 Aceh earthquake (Indonesian: Gempa Aceh 2016) struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a M w of 6.5 in Aceh province on 7 December 2016, at 05:03 WIB (22:03 UTC 6 December 2016). The shock was reported to be at a depth of 13 km, categorized as a strong, shallow earthquake.
On 23 November, rescuers attended to Cugenang, where a village was buried by a landslide. [69] A six-year-old was rescued alive after being trapped under his collapsed home for two days. [52] On 24 November, over 1,000 rescuers used rescue dogs, heavy equipment and their bare hands to quicken the search for the missing. [52]
Badan Rehabilitasi dan Rekonstruksi (BRR) NAD-Nias, or Agency for the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of Aceh and Nias, was an Indonesian government agency which coordinated and jointly implemented the recovery programme following the December 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami that mostly affected Aceh and the March 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake.
The Great Sumatran fault, also known as Semangko fault, is a large strike-slip fault running the entire length of the island of Sumatra.This Indonesian island is located in a highly seismic area of the world, including a subduction zone off the west coast of the island.
On 2 July 2013, an earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra on 2 July with a moment magnitude of 6.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong).The strike-slip earthquake killed at least 43 people [4] and injured more than 2,500 others [5] in the province of Aceh (on the northern end of Sumatra) where approximately 4,300 homes were damaged or destroyed.
Aceh earthquake may refer to: 2012 Aceh earthquake , magnitude 8.6 and 8.2 M w undersea earthquakes that struck near the Indonesian province of Aceh on April 11, 2012 2013 Aceh earthquake , magnitude 6.1 earthquake that struck the province of Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on July 2, 2013