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Large numbers of earthquakes of smaller magnitude occur very regularly due to the meeting of major tectonic plates in the region. Based on the records of the USGS, Indonesia has had more than 150 earthquakes with magnitude > 7 in the period 1901–2019.
The 1629 Banda Sea earthquake struck the Banda Sea, Indonesia on August 1. Its epicentre is believed to have been in the Seram Trough . A megathrust earthquake caused a 15 m (49 ft) tsunami, which was recorded to have affected the Banda Islands about 30 minutes after the quake.
The 1797 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 22:00 local time on 10 February. [1] It was the first in a series of great earthquakes that ruptured part of the Sumatran segment of the Sunda megathrust . It caused a damaging tsunami that was particularly severe near Padang , where a 150–200 t (170–220 short tons) English ship was driven 1 km (0.62 ...
Megathrust earthquakes in Sumatra (1 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Megathrust earthquakes in Indonesia" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
M w [38] One of the largest earthquake in recorded history. 1963 Kuril Islands earthquake: 27 March 1964 17:36 (local time) Prince William Sound, Alaska: 131 9.2 M w [39] The second largest earthquake in recorded history. 1964 Alaska earthquake: 3 February 1965 19:01 (local time) Rat Islands, Alaska: 0 8.7 M w [40] One of the largest earthquake ...
On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time , a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 M w struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a rupture along the fault between ...
The first earthquake occurred at 11:10:26 UTC (18:10 local time) on 12 September 2007, and was an 8.4 M w earthquake on the moment magnitude scale. [2] It had a focal depth of 34 km, at , about 130 km southwest of Bengkulu on the southwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, and some 600 km west-northwest of Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta
If it were an intraslab earthquake occurring within the downgoing Australian plate as it subducts beneath the Sunda plate along the Sunda megathrust, the estimated moment magnitude (M w ) would be 7.4 to 8.0, with an epicenter near Batavia, and a focal depth of 100 km. [4] Modelling of the 1699 earthquake scenarios show that an intraslab ...