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2007 Sumatra earthquakes; 2010 Banyak Islands earthquake; The seismicity of the Sumatra coast and the top six quakes ever recorded appear to be clustered in two time periods: a 12-year span between 1952 and 1964 and a 7-year span between the 2004 and 2011; however, this is understood as a statistical anomaly. [2]
W. van Gelder. Dari Tanah Hindia berkoeliling boemi: kitab pengadjaran ilmoe boemi bagi sekola anak negeri di Hindia-Nederland.J.B. Wolters, 1897.Original from National Library of the Netherlands (original from Leiden University Libraries).
This Indonesian island is located in a highly seismic area of the world, including a subduction zone off the west coast of the island. The Great Sumatran fault zone accommodates most of the strike-slip motion associated with the oblique convergence between the Indo-Australian plate and Eurasian plate [ 1 ] The fault ends in the north near the ...
The 1797 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 22:00 local time on 10 February. [1] It was the first in a series of great earthquakes that ruptured part of the Sumatran segment of the Sunda megathrust . It caused a damaging tsunami that was particularly severe near Padang , where a 150–200 t (170–220 short tons) English ship was driven 1 km (0.62 ...
Rescuers on Tuesday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend.
Indonesian authorities seeded clouds on Wednesday, trying to prevent further rain and flash floods after deluges that hit the country's Sumatra Island over the weekend left at least 59 people dead ...
The island of Sumatra lies on the convergent plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Eurasian plate.The convergence between these plates is highly oblique near Sumatra, with the displacement being accommodated by near pure dip-slip faulting along the subduction zone, known as the Sunda megathrust, and near pure strike-slip faulting along the Great Sumatran fault.
The time of arrival of the tsunami was between 15 and 30 minutes after the deadly earthquake. According to the country's National Disaster Relief Coordination Agency, around 130,000 people were dead and 37,063 were missing; [1] deaths included 126,602 in Aceh and 130 in North Sumatra. [2]