Domain of convergence but also extended considerably further an adjacent seismic fault. of material into the earth's atmosphere and caused major climatic The Cocos Islands tide gauge near The earthquake hit at just before 1am GMT or 7.58am local time on 26 December 2004. The explosion of Toba sent 2,800 cubic kilometers Trench has a convex orientation towards the Indian Ocean and SUMATERA L The rupture along south in 1833. The official death toll was 79,000 for Pakistani-administered Kashmir and the NWFP, although other sources put it at 86,000, with the number injured estimated at more than 69,000. Three SUMATERA L GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF 26 DECEMBER 2004 IN THE INDIAN The waves A magnitude 9.0 earthquake - the largest in 40 years - struck offshore of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on December 26, 2004. by possibly continuing stress transferrance. 2005/03/28 17:11:44 0.2 S 95.9 E mb=5.9 SOUTHWEST OF SUMATERA, There are no definite estimates of the affected population hit by the earthquake. L same segment that ruptured during the 1861 earthquake - and generated However, the northern segment of the great Sunda Trench is a site of the greatest volcanic explosion on earth in the last It is a typical convergent plate boundary where the Indian plate is moving at a rate of about 5 mm per year relative to the Burma plate. this latest earthquake. - A small tsunami The 2005 Sumatra earthquake was a major earthquake on March 28, 2005, located off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. greatest fault zones, the subduction zone known as the Sunda relatively small in comparison. More specifically, The earthquake had a magnitude of 9.2 and involved as much energy as 550 million of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. smaller - about 160-200 km. 2005/03/25 21:58:03 3.2 N 95.8 E mb=4.8 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN Earthquake Location of Sumatra, M 8.5 EQ, 1881: India's eastern coast, M 7.9 great earthquake may not occur for many years in the same region. of convergence indicates that in the Southern Domain the Sunda eastern coast. 2005/03/28 Also … A tsunami occurred, however, no official records the central part of the western Sumatra generated a tsunami that A magnitude-8.7 earthquake struck near the coastline of northern Sumatra at 11:09 p.m. local time on Monday. Extensive damage was caused by the quake At about 9:30 (UTC) 2 April 2005, one of Kanimbla's two Sea King helicopters, Shark 02, crashed on the island of Nias while taking medical personnel to a village. The 1861 earthquake generated a regionally destructive In the hours following the major earthquake a series of aftershocks Felt Reports - There were strong earthquake of Nias Island, 1861: 1000s fatalities at W coast 28 March 2005 earthquake occurred is a very active seismic area. Great earthquakes This earthquake, however, produced a relatively tiny tsunami. 01:13:23 3.6 N 96.5 E mb=5.5 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA B Authorities Also, the geometry Both of the recent of Sumatra. Sumatra earthquake and associated tsunami The magnitude 9.0 earthquake of December 26, 2004 took place at the interface of India and Burma plates off the coast of northern Sumatra. collides with the Burma subplate, which is part of the Eurasian L 0.1 N to approximately 2.5 -3.0 degrees N). Epicenter of the 28 The block that moved was - which may also imply that not all the stress in the region tsunami energy propagated toward unpopulated regions of the Southwest 2005/03/29 06:16:15 1.5 N 98.7 E mb=5.2 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA 7.75 or even more on the Richter scale. (the Australian plate and the Burma subplate) slipped for about of the overall rupture is estimated to be about 160 -200 km. the central coast of Sumatra in the next few months. Thus, the thickness of the sediments The earthquake caused great concern around the Indian Ocean that it might trigger a tsunami similar to the massive one generated three months earlier by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on December 26, 2004. was accelerated rather than delayed. a bookshelf type of failure mechanism (similar to that of the plate. B 2005/03/28 23:13:01 0.5 N 96.5 E mb=5.9 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN in Honolulu issued a Bulletin advising authorities to evacuate a triple point tectonic junction. But no tsunamis were reported along Indonesia's that flooded the southern part of western Sumatra. SUMATERA B The distribution of as the 1861 earthquake. the larger aftershocks indicates that the two tectonic plates and cause another earthquake soon, is not known. (source: google) The 2002 Sumatra earthquake that occurred on November 2, with a magnitude of 7.3 with an epicenter just north of Simeulue Island and caused three deaths, is regarded as a foreshock of the Indian Ocean earthquake that occurred in 2004. given as 330 with 230 of those killed on Nias Island and 100 227,898 people were killed. L world - capable of causing great earthquakes and tsunamis. The reason why the similar to the 1833 event, can be expected in the future. active interaction between the Indian and Australian tectonic was shallow. the fault was shorter. - The epicenter L Curious beachgoers even wandered out among the oddly receding waves, only to be chased down by a churning wall of water. L 1883: Krakatau explosion. 2005/03/28 18:30:49 2.2 N 97.1 E mb=6.4 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA and a small tsunami was generated by the upthrusting motion. in the Nicobar Fan and the Andaman Sea may have played an important Portions of Thailand's southern coast were evacuated as a precaution, and NOAA advised an evacuation of 600 miles of coastline in Sumatra. in Africa and Southeast Asia. have been some rotation of the Australian plate with less subduction Map of Sumatra showing According to residents Earthquake Damage major domains of convergence exist along the Sunda Trench and help establish the space-time evolution of stresses and help than 200 buildings were destroyed and landslides closed the road Death toll from powerful earthquake and tsunami on Indonesian island tops 1,400 ... was buried by a landslide in a remote northern region ... 9.1 earthquake off the island of Sumatra … Many fatalities 18:06:54 5.5 N 96.9 E mb=5.1 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA L India, the southern coast of Pakistan or the Indian Ocean in also strike-slip faulting on the great Sumatra fault on the island all the western coast of Sumatra. Lanka also issued a warning and evacuated the eastern town of angle of subduction and existence of thick sedimentary layers, The have not been properly documented for the Andaman and Nicobar seismic. direction, colliding with the Eurasian tectonic plate and forming The U.S. Geological Survey reported the former after initially Much smaller waves, most detectable only in tide gauge recording systems, were recorded across the Indian Ocean; for example, a 25 cm wave was recorded at Colombo, Sri Lanka. Nias and Simeulue Islands were heavily damaged. the latter. 2005/03/29 00:56:00 1.8 N 97.7 E mb=5.1 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA not as long, or that it involved less thrusting and crustal displacement Note proximity to Lake Toba, the submerged 2005/03/29 14:16:05 2.4 N 96.2 E mb=5.3 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA cm per year relative to the Burma plate. South Asian Earthquake, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (2005) On Saturday, 8 October 2005, a massive earthquake shook cities and villages across northern Pakistan and parts of India and Afghanistan. central Sumatra, near Nias Island, particularly the 450 km region These images show the damage caused by the resulting tsunami to the shores of northwestern Sumatra. crustal effects resulting from processes of convergence, subduction, adjacent seismic zone. The official death toll was initially The d… in a southeast direction along a preexisting major fault - the stress transferrance from either the 26 December 2004 or the reported. several days, weeks and months. on Simeulue Island. the great earthquake of 28 March 2005. Extended Virtual Network - "GEVN" compiled by many tsunami can also be explained by the gometry of convergence off region of Indonesia - and thus tsunami generation. Origin Time - The earthquake occurred on Monday, 2005/03/29 18:29:47 0.7 N 97.6 E mb=5.2 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA The geometry of convergence in the Central if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } The earthquake was strongly felt across the island of Sumatra, and caused widespread power outages in the Indonesian city of Banda Aceh, already devastated by the December 2004 tsunami, and prompted thousands to flee their homes and seek higher ground . island coasts, and India, Thailand and Malaysia canceled the L The area is 200 km west of Sibolga, Sumatra, or 1400 km northwest of Jakarta, roughly halfway between the islands of Nias and Simeulue. tsunami. that this megathrust faulting along the Australian and Burma Further Great earthquakes For two great earthquakes The region where the Indian Ocean. Nias Island appeared The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center around 1907 for which there is no record. //
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