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Both the earthquake and the tsunami may have affected shipping in the Malacca Straits, which separate Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, by changing the depth of the seabed and by disturbing navigational buoys and old shipwrecks. In one area of the Strait, water depths were previously up to 1,200 m (4,000 ft), and are now only 30 m ...
Great Sumatra fault. The west coast of Sumatra is dominated by the Sunda megathrust; a 5,500 km (3,400 mi) [3] long convergent boundary where the Australian plate subducts beneath the Burma plate and Sunda plate at a rate of 60 mm (2.4 in) per year. [4] The subduction zone offshore Sumatra was responsible for several large earthquakes in 2004 ...
The rupture area of this earthquake is situated within the southern segment, where historical earthquakes include the earthquake of 1797 and the M w ~ 9.0 1833 Sumatra earthquake. [1] [10] Unlike in 2004, the tsunami caused by the October 2010 earthquake did not propagate westwards and other Indian Ocean nations were unaffected.
JAKARTA (Reuters) -A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck west of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, triggering a tsunami warning for around two hours.
1995 Kerinci earthquake: Moment magnitude 6.8 earthquake, killed at least 84 people and caused 1,868 injuries. [11] 1994 Liwa earthquake: 7.0 M w event caused 207 deaths near the southern tip of Sumatra. 1933 Sumatra earthquake: M w 7.6 event (5.226°S 104.596°E) southern of Sumatra. [12] More than 76 people killed and extensive damage. Two ...
At least 915 people were killed, mostly on the island of Nias. It was among the top 10 most powerful recorded worldwide since 1900, [4] with a magnitude of 8.6 that caused a relatively small tsunami. [5] Damage ranged from hundreds of buildings destroyed in Nias to widespread power outages throughout the island of Sumatra.
It was determined that the earthquake was a result of movement on a strike-slip fault, and was similar to the 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes. [11] The epicenter of the earthquake was approximately 805 kilometers (500 miles) southwest of Padang , the capital of the province of West Sumatra; [ 12 ] the closest inhabited land to the epicenter was ...
1943 Alahan Panjang earthquakes; 2000 Enggano earthquake; 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami; 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake; 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes; 2008 Simeulue earthquake; 2010 Banyak Islands earthquake; 2011 Aceh Singkil Regency earthquakes; 2013 Aceh earthquake; 2016 Aceh earthquake; List of earthquakes in Indonesia