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23 paź 2024 · Brief Summary of the Disaster. 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami is one of the deadliest multi-level disasters that occurred in Indian Ocean, affecting Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, and several other countries in year 2004. Millions of people were impacted across 14 countries and there were 230,000 to 280,000 fatalities.
Introduction. At 00:58:49 GMT (07:58 local time) on Sunday December 26, 2004, a strong earthquake of magnitude Mw=9.0 struck at 3.09 ̊N, 94.26 ̊E southwest of Banda Aceh in north-ern Sumatra. This oficial USGS mag-nitude is based on the Harvard Cen-troid Moment Tensor solution.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was unusually large in geographical and geological extent. An estimated 1,600 km (1,000 mi) of fault surface slipped (or ruptured) about 15 m (50 ft) along the subduction zone where the Indian plate slides under (or subducts) the overriding Burma plate.
A magnitude 9.1 undersea earthquake that struck off the west coast of the Indonesian Island of Sumatra on December 26, 2004 was the third largest earthquake in the world since 1900; USGS estimated the earthquake released the energy of 23,000 Hiroshima-type atomic bombs.
3 mar 2017 · Pada 2016, Indonesia menominasikan Arsip Tsunami Samudera Hindia sebagai Memory of the World UNESCO. Peristiwa Tsunami Samudera Hindia pada 2004 merupakan salah satu bencana yang...
26 gru 2004 · The December 26 earthquake and tsunami devastated the lives of millions of people, leaving a wake of destruction from Asia to Africa. This was the worst natural disaster .
1 gru 2005 · The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and subsequent Asian Tsunami of 26 December 2004 affected multiple countries in the Indian Ocean and beyond, creating disasters of a scale unprecedented in...
