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Casualties. 227,898 dead [ 5 ][ 6 ] On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7 ), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [ 8 ][ 9 ] was ...
The 2018 Sunda strait tsunami ( Indonesian: Tsunami Selat Sunda 2018) occurred on 22 December 2018 at around 21:38 local time after large parts of the southwestern side of Anak Krakatoa collapsed onto its caldera. [ 5] The landslide spawned a massive tsunami wave that struck multiple coastal regions in Banten and Lampung, including the popular ...
The humanitarian response to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake of a magnitude of 9.1 was prompted by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. On December 26, 2004, the earthquake, which struck off the northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generated a tsunami that wreaked havoc along much of the rim of the Indian Ocean.
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 ...
v. t. e. 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. Nearly all the casualties and damage took place within the province of Aceh.
1992 Flores earthquake. 12 December 1992. Flores. 1,490 deaths in Maumere and 700 in Babi Island . 3-4 metres wave run up heights occurred along the eastern coasts of Maumere, Maximum run up height of 26 metres (85 feet) at Riangkroko village. 1994 Java earthquake. 6 June 1994. Eastern coasts of Java, Bali. 250 deaths caused by tsunami.
More than 400 people were confirmed killed as tsunami waves triggered by an earthquake crashed into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Toll seen rising after Indonesian quake, tsunami kills ...
Commons. Timeline. v. t. e. Although National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Hawaii eventually issued warnings of a possible tsunami from the large earthquake off Sumatra, the waves outran notification systems at jet speeds of 500 mph (804 km/h), catching hundreds of ...