What the records say
- When
- 31 Dec 1881
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 8.52° N, 92.43° E
- Max water height m
- 1.22
- Source quake magnitude
- 7.9
- Runups
- 11
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake
Seismic event
The 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake occurred at about 07:49 local time on 31 December, with an epicentre beneath Car Nicobar. It occurred as two separate ruptures, the largest of which had an estimated magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale and triggered a tsunami that was observed around the Bay of Bengal. It is probably the earliest earthquake for which rupture parameters have been estimated instrumentally.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page