What the records say
- When
- 28 Mar 2005
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 2.08° N, 97.11° E
- Deaths
- 1319
- Injuries
- 340
- Houses destroyed
- 300
- Max water height m
- 4.2
- Source quake magnitude
- 8.6
- Runups
- 76
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake
2005 earthquake in Sumatra, Indonesia
On 28 March 2005, at 23:09:37 WIB, a Mw 8.6–8.7 earthquake struck the Banyak Islands, located off the coast of Aceh, Indonesia. It was the most powerful earthquake globally since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake three months prior, and is tied with the 2012 Indian Ocean, 1957 Andreanof Islands, 1950 Assam–Tibet and 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquakes as the tenth-largest earthquake ever recorded by seismometers.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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