O sismo e tsunami do Oceano Índico de 2004 foi um terremoto/sismo submarino que ocorreu às 00:58:53 UTC de 26 de dezembro de 2004, com epicentro na costa oeste de Sumatra, na Indonésia.O terremoto é conhecido pela comunidade científica como terremoto de Sumatra-Andaman. The worst part of it washed away whole cities in Indonesia, but every country on the shore of the Indian Ocean was also affected.
In Indonesia’s Aceh province on the island of Sumatra, about 170,000 people were killed by the massive ocean waves. Sumatra, part of the Sunda Islands, is an island located in western Indonesia. Tectonics of Sumatra-Andaman Islands. The interface between the two plates results in a large fault, termed an interplate thrust or megathrust. A powerful earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, on December 26, 2004 sets off a tsunami that wreaks death and devastation across … The December 26, 2004 M=9.1 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake occurred along a tectonic subduction zone in which the India Plate, an oceanic plate, is being subducted beneath the Burma micro-plate, part of the larger Sunda plate..
In Indonesia, some 240,000 people died from the quake and tsunami combined. Days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a man in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, scavenged the rubble for usable items. A large tsunami triggered by the earthquake spread outward from off the Sumatran coast. Measuring just over 473,000 km2, Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. [1] [2]O maremoto foi causado por uma subducção que desencadeou uma série de tsunamis devastadores ao … Natural Disasters in Sumatra; Biggest earthquake in Indonesia; Disaster in Indonesia; History of tsunami cave in Aceh; Everyone knows that Sumatra is located in such a dangereous area, locatd in the way of drfiting earth plate, that can cause more and more quakes in a short time. A tsunami that hit Pandeglang, Serang and South Lampung, Indonesia, Saturday night, killed at least 222 people and injured at least 700. The earthquake deformed the ocean floor, pushing the overlying water up into a tsunami wave. On the morning of December 26, 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.The earthquake resulted from complex slip on the fault where the oceanic portion of the Indian Plate slides under Sumatra, part of the Eurasian Plate.