Earthquake — Indonesia: Sumatra: Aceh: Off West Coast

When

26 Dec 2004

Kind

Earthquake

Magnitude

9.1

Where

Indonesia

Coordinates

3.29° N, 95.98° E

Deaths

227899

Damage musd

10000

Depth km

30

On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a Mw 9.2–9.3 earthquake struck with its epicenter off the west coast of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, was caused by a rupture along the fault boundary between the Burma plate and the Indian plate, and reached a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX in some ar…

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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 “The 9.1–9.3 Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Hint Okyanusu depremi ve tsunamisi: 9.1-9.3 Mw büyüklüğündeki deprem Kuzey Sumatra'yı maksimum Mercalli şiddet ölçeğine göre IX (Şiddetli) olarak salladı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Schätzungsweise 300.000 Menschen sterben durch einen von einem Erdbeben im Indischen Ozean hervorgerufenen Tsunami (26. Dezember)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “26 australiens décèdent dans le tsunami qui frappe une majorité de pays côtiers de l'océan Indien”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Крупнейшее землетрясение в Индийском океане у берегов Юго-Восточной Азии”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la isla indonesia de Sumatra se registra un gran terremoto de 9,3, el segundo más fuerte registrado de la historia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “موجة مد عارمة تكتسح شواطئ جنوب شرق آسيا وتحصد 150,000 نسمة”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “2004年印度洋大地震”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “スマトラ島沖地震が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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