A
great earthquake occurred at 00:58:50 (UTC) on Sunday, December 26, 2004.
The magnitude
8.9 event has been located OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA.
Data:
Magnitude
8.9
Date-Time
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 (UTC)
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Coordinated Universal Time
Sunday,
December 26, 2004 at 6:58:50 AM
=
local time at epicenter
Time
of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location
3.298°N, 95.779°E
Depth
10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
Region
OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Distances
250
km (155 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia
320
km (200 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
1260
km (780 miles) SSW of BANGKOK, Thailand
1605
km (1000 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location
Uncertainty horizontal +/- 9.2 km (5.7 miles); |
depth
fixed by location program
Parameters
Nst=157, Nph=157, Dmin=>999 km, Rmss=1.35 sec, Gp= 29°,
M-type=moment
magnitude (Mw), Version=9
Source
USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event
ID usslav
Felt
Reports At least 9 people killed, buildings collapsed and telephone
service disrupted at Banda Aceh. Many people killed by tsunamis in Sri
Lanka and Thailand. Tsunamis also observed on the coasts of Maldives, Cocos
Island and Sumatra. Felt widely in northern Sumatra. Also felt in Bangladesh,
India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This is the fifth largest
earthquake in the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince
William Sound, Alaska earthquake. |