What the records say
- When
- 12 Sep 2007
- Kind
- Tsunami
- Coordinates
- 4.44° S, 101.37° E
- Deaths
- 25
- Injuries
- 161
- Houses destroyed
- 56425
- Max water height m
- 5
- Source quake magnitude
- 8.4
- Runups
- 56
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
2007 Bengkulu earthquakes
Earthquakes affecting Indonesia
The 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes were a series of megathrust earthquakes that struck the Sunda Trench off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with three of magnitude 7 or greater. A series of tsunami bulletins was issued for the area. The most powerful of the series had a magnitude of 8.4, which makes it in the top 20 of the largest earthquakes ever recorded on a seismograph.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page
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