On December 26, 2004, at 7:59 am local time, an undersea earthquake with a magnitude of 9.1 struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Over the next seven hours, a tsunami—a series of immense ocean waves—triggered by the quake reached out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal areas as far away as East Africa.

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 Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

2024年11月22日 · In 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean released energy equivalent to 23,000 Hiroshima type atomic bombs. 20 years later, we examine the disaster and its toll. A woman laments the loss of...

2023年6月12日 · On December 26, 2004, an extremely powerful earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Indian Ocean generated a devastating tsunami. This tragic event raised awareness about the threat posed by tsunamis to coastal communities around the world and led to significant advances in tsunami detection, forecasting, warning ...

2014年12月23日 · According to USGS scientists, the sea floor near the earthquake was uplifted several meters. The displacement of water above the sea floor triggered the tsunami, which caused catastrophic levels of destruction in countries around the Indian Ocean basin, reaching as far as the east coast of Africa.

2024年10月23日 · 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.

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck on December 26, 2004, following a large underwater earthquake of magnitude 9.1 to 9.3 off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake caused a series of huge tsunami waves that hit more than a dozen nations, including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, the Maldives, Myanmar, and Somalia.

2018年10月8日 · Three months after the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, a M=8.6 earthquake occured offshore northern Sumatra. Although there was intense strong ground shaking and heavy damage associated with this earthquake, the …

The December 26, 2004 event in the Indian Ocean was a rare magnitude 9.0 earthquake with an undersea source that triggered a massive tsunami.

2023年9月19日 · What caused the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami? On December 26, 2004 an undersea earthquake, with a 9.1 magnitude rating, hit just off the coast of the Indonesian Island Sumatra (Britannica, 2023).