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On the island of South Pagai, the tsunami reached a height of 3 m (9 ft) and swept as far as 600 m (1800 ft) inland. A maximum run-up of 16.86 m (55.3 ft) at Sibigau Island . [ 13 ] According to Indonesian officials, more than 20 villages were hit by the tsunami, displacing more than 20,000 people [ 12 ] and affecting about 4,000 households.
The tsunami heights in Sumatra: [77] 15–30 m (49–98 ft) on the west coast of Aceh; 6–12 m (20–39 ft) on the Banda Aceh coast; 6 m (20 ft) on the Krueng Raya coast; 5 m (16 ft) on the Sigli coast; 3–6 m (9.8–19.7 ft) on the north coast of Weh Island directly facing the tsunami source
A tsunami approximately 1 metre high was reported at Padang, Indonesia. [16] A 1.5 metre tsunami was observed in Sikakap beach on South Pagai Island. [17] A small tsunami, some 15 cm high, was reported at the Cocos Islands. [18] Sumatra was taken off tsunami alert after two hours. A weak tsunami caused some damage in Serangai, located north of ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) -A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck west of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Tuesday, Indonesia's geophysics agency (BMKG) said, triggering a tsunami warning for around two hours.
Indonesia's Ministry of Health confirmed 131,028 deaths on June 18, 2005, mainly in the northern province Aceh of the island Sumatra. 37,000 people are missing. Malaysia. Despite its proximity to the incident, Malaysia escaped the kind of damage that struck countries thousands of miles further away (most of its western coast is shielded by ...
Twenty years after the 2004 tsunami, a BBC reporter who was on the Andaman and Nicobar islands looks back. ... Occurring off the coast of northwest Sumatra under the Indian Ocean, it unleashed a ...
Indonesia was the first country to be seriously affected by the earthquake and tsunami created by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004, swamping the northern and western coastal areas of Sumatra, and the smaller outlying islands off Sumatra.
A tsunami that devastated the area around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, leaving at least 222 dead and hundreds more injured, struck fast and without warning on Saturday. While most tsunamis have ...