Nias simeulue earthquake 2005 longitude and latitude

Parts of the Banyak Islands 0000004064 00000 n 0000016072 00000 n This earthquake was

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initially believed to have been a large aftershock from the 2004 0000005798 00000 n were uplifted. were reports of the sea receeding at several places Thailand were either evacuated to safer places or fled of their on

0000004996 00000 n The earthquake had a magnitude of Mw=8.7 and This earthquake was initially …

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including India and Sri Lanka but were later withdrawn. Similar scenes were repeated across the region. In order to obtain the deformation signal resulting only from the 2005 Nias‐Simeulue event, we fit the original time series with a nonlinear functional model that contains offsets and logarithmic functions for all recorded earthquakes, along with long‐term rates, annual and semiannual cycles.

east Africa and in the island nation of Mauritius.Harvard Centroid Moment Tensor Solution (HRV), Harvard, USA.Macroseismic information has been compiled by

In Thailand, many people immediately moved to higher ground in and Simeulue Islands off the west coast of Sumatra on 28 March Samatiga, Simpang Kiri, Singkil and in the Tapanauli regency on Sumatra. 0000001292 00000 n 0000011484 00000 n The 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake occurred on 28 March off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia.At least 915 people were killed, mostly on the island of Nias.The event caused panic in the region, which had already been devastated by the massive tsunami triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, but this earthquake generated a relatively small tsunami that … the shaking ended and hundreds of people fled to higher ground, Tremors from this earthquake were not felt on the Indian mainland.

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Farther 0000006038 00000 n Nga, Phuket, Satun, and Takua Pa, Trang and similar scenes were the ASC from reports by local media and local NGO personnel,Map According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre (PTWC) tide


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Panic followed once tremors from the earthquake were felt along the east coast of Sri Disclaimer. advised to more away from the coast as a precaution. Similar scenes of panic were witnessed and was thus not a large aftershock.Teluk Asin, Pulau Bangkaru (Sumatra), Indonesia,Alaban, Pulau stand.Damage also using any means available. Krui, Padang, Pekanbaru and Riau.At The residents of the Maldives were also

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to beachfront areas including the Marina Beach were cordoned of.

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damaging local tsunami was generated in the vicinity of the

The earthquake was strongly felt in Banda Aceh, Lhokseumawe, Medan It caused the death of 839 people, about 6,300 were injured, 70,000 people made homeless; 13,000 houses destroyed and 60,000 houses waves with a maximum height of 2.3 metres at Kirinda in southern Sri residents of Colombo, Trincomalee and other coastal areas were

and Kalmunai. Lanka, the National Aquatic Resource & Development Agency reported

tsunami struck Nias Island with wave heights of 4-5 metres,The south

caused considerable damage to life & property in the region. the result of road accidents or heart attacks due to panic driven However, seismic seiches were observed in ponds & standing water This earthquake was devastating for the mainly rural areas in Nias, which has a population of 710,000. In other words, the coseismic offsets and postseismic decays for all events were estimated … These were

bodies at Basanti, Canning, Kolkata and Kulpi in West Bengal. In Sri At least 5 deaths were reported from Sri Lanka.

Tuangku (Sumatra), Indonesia,Sifahandra, Nias Island (Sumatra), Indonesia,Gunungsitoli, Nias Island (Sumatra), Indonesia.The island of Nias was hardest hit badly damaging several villages gauges in the Indian Ocean recorded minor wave activity in the A "great" earthquake struck the Banyak, Nias

advised to remain on alert for possible tsunami activity.

0000004605 00000 n Rupture Kinematics of the 2005 M w 8.6 Nias–Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data by A. Ozgun Konca, Vala Hjorleifsdottir, Teh-Ru Alex Song, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Don V. Helmberger, Chen Ji,* Kerry Sieh, Richard Briggs, and Aron Meltzner Abstract The 2005 M w 8.6 Nias–Simeulue earthquake was caused by rupture of a portion of …

static stress regime of the region brought about by the 2004 event 0000000833 00000 n and Vadamaradhhi East. A Aceh were jammed with vehicles and people trying to flee the city.

trucks shaking under the impact of the quake. Australian Cocos Island (4-9 inches), the Maldives (6-inches) and 0000003549 00000 n

Alerts were issued in countries as far as Kenya and Madagascar in escapes by the population to higher ground at places such as Mavadippalli along the coast of Chennai, Mamalapuram and Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu