What the records say
- When
- 2 Nov 2002
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 7.3
- Where
- Indonesia
- Coordinates
- 2.82° N, 96.08° E
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 65
- Depth km
- 30
2002 Sumatra earthquake
2002 earthquake in Indonesia
The 2002 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 08:26:10 WIB on 2 November. It had a magnitude of Mw 7.2–7.4 with an epicenter just north of Simeulue island, and resulted in three fatalities. It is believed to be a foreshock of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which had an epicenter about 60 km to the northwest.
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- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “An earthquake occurred at 01:26 UTC with a magnitude of 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale with an epicenter just north of Simeulue island and caused three…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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