Indonesian residents stay in the open after a strong earthquake shook Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, 02 February 2016. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said a magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck some ...

(Phys.org) -- An earthquake in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia on 11th April was unusually powerful, at magnitude 8.6, for a “strike-slip” type of quake, and a new ...

Earthquake rocks Sumatra, prompts brief tsunami alert. 7.8-magnitude temblor causes panic but not much apparent damage. April 6, 2010. JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook ...

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning after the earthquake; Sumatra was an area badly affected by the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people. Indonesia's warning covers West ...

A house is wrecked after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the western coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least two people on Feb. 25, 2022.

DENVER — Aftershocks still are rattling Sumatra three months after a colossal earthquake, but a new analysis of the Dec. 26 quake indicates it was even more powerful than previously believed ...

Scientists are rethinking their theories, based on data collected after the earthquake. The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake is the best recorded seismic event in history.

A second powerful earthquake in as many days jolted Southeast Asia and triggered a regional tsunami warning today, damaging hundreds of buildings along Indonesia's western coast and sending ...

Slow slips preceded many of the mightiest earthquakes ever recorded, including Indonesia's cataclysmic magnitude 9.1 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake in 2004, Japan's devastating magnitude 9.1 Tōhoku ...

Ammon and his colleagues looked at what happened during the Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004 and the subsequent earthquake on March 28, 2005, using a variety of models.