What the records say
- When
- 26 Dec 2004
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 3.29° N, 95.98° E
- Deaths
- 227899
- Damage musd
- 10000
- Max water height m
- 50.9
- Source quake magnitude
- 9.1
- Runups
- 2177
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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