Magnitude 9.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 UTC
Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver
Magnitude: 9.0
Date-Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:50 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal
Time
Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 07:58:50 AM local time at epicenter
Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location 3.30N 95.78E
Depth 10.0 kilometers
Region OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
Reference 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 Quality Error estimate: horizontal +/- 9.3 km; depth fixed by location
program
Location Quality
Parameters Nst=157, Nph=157, Dmin=1709.0 km, Rmss=1.35 sec, Erho=9.3 km, Erzz=0
km, Gp=29.3 degrees
Source USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Remarks At least 3,000 people killed in Sri Lanka, 2,300 in India, 2,000 in
Indonesia, 289 in Thailand, 42 in Malaysia, 8 in Somalia and 2 in Bangladesh
by tsunamis. Tsunamis also occurred on the coasts of Maldives and Cocos Island.
At least 200 people killed, buildings destroyed or damaged in the Banda Aceh
area, Sumatra. Felt widely in Sumatra. Also felt in Bangladesh, India, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This is now the fourth largest earthquake in
the world since 1900 and is the largest since the 1964 Prince William Sound,
Alaska earthquake.
http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_slav.html