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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake is thought to have triggered activity in both Leuser Mountain [46] and Mount Talang, [47] volcanoes in Aceh along the same range of peaks, while the 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake sparked activity in Lake Toba, a massive caldera in Sumatra.
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 ...
Image as of a few days after the earthquake. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami occurred on Sunday, December 26, 2004. The earthquake itself, with a moment magnitude of around 9.2-9.3, devastated Aceh Province, Indonesia, while the tsunami affected countries all around the Indian Ocean. Nations which were affected are listed below in ...
The first of the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes (Indonesian: Gempa bumi Sumatra 2009) occurred on 30 September off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia with a moment magnitude of 7.6 at 17:16:10 local time. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28 mi) west-northwest of Padang , West Sumatra , and 220 kilometres (140 mi) southwest of Pekanbaru , Riau .
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.
2009 Sumatra earthquakes. August 2018 Lombok earthquake. 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. 2021 West Sulawesi earthquake. 2022 West Java earthquake. See also.
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.
Sumatra earthquake may refer to: 1797 Sumatra earthquake; 1833 Sumatra earthquake; 1861 Sumatra earthquake; 1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake; 1933 Sumatra earthquake;