Introduction [2] On 11 April 2012, a great Mw 8. 6 earthquake occurred in the Wharton Basin, 100 km southwest of the Sumatra Trench, and was followed by a major Mw 8. 2 aftershock two hours later (). These events belong to the diffuse deformation zone of the Indian Ocean that extends between the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge and the Sumatra Trench, accommodating the relative rotation between the. The 2012 Sumatra earthquake raises the concern of similarly large events in continental strike-slip fault systems, which pose a higher hazard to populations. Although the tectonic setting in an oceanic intraplate zone of high deformation is rare, at least one of the ingredients that made this earthquake big—its large stress drop—is a. The 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes were magnitude 8. 2 M w undersea earthquakes that struck near the Indonesian province of Aceh on 11 April at 15:38 local time. Initially, authorities feared that the initial earthquake would cause a tsunami and warnings were issued across the Indian Ocean; however, these warnings were subsequently cancelled. 6 magnitude earthquake that struck Sumatra in April 2012 was a weird one, and a new study that backtracked seismic waves shows some of the reasons why. The April 11, 2012 (08:38:37 UTC), M 8. 6 earthquake off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia, occurred as a result of strike-slip faulting within the oceanic lithosphere of the Indo-Australia plate, the first of two M 8+ earthquakes in this region on the same day. This first event was located 100 km to the southwest of the major. The complexity of the Mw=8. 6 Sumatra earthquake was detected early on by preliminary source analyses (Hayes, 2012, Kiser and Ishii, 2012, Meng et al. The intricate distribution of aftershocks, the complexity of short-period body-wave waveforms and the remoteness of geodetic instruments due to the oceanic epicenter location make it difficult to resolve the. The 11 April 2012 M = 8. 6 east Indian Ocean earthquake is by far the largest strike-slip event ever recorded was a complex event rupturing a series of subparallel and conjugate faults with. Introduction [2] On April 11, 2012 (08:38:37 UTC), a Mw 8. 6 earthquake, which is the greatest strike-slip earthquake ever instrumentally recorded, occurred off the west coast of Sumatra Island. Nearly two hours later, a Mw 8. 2 aftershock with a similar focal mechanism initiated approximately 180 km to SSW of the epicenter of the mainshock (2. 063°E, given by the United States. This year's largest earthquake, a magnitude 8. 6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week. The 11 April 2012 Mw 8. 6 earthquake offshore Sumatra is the largest of the rare great intraplate earthquakes of the instrumental era. This major strike-slip event occurred in the diffuse zone of. People try to reach higher ground after a powerful earthquake off Banda Aceh, Sumatra island, Indonesia, prompted an Indian-Ocean-wide tsunami alert. 1 Introduction [2] Earthquakes larger than M w 8. 5 are rare and generally occur on megathrusts along well-identified plate boundaries.

Strong Indonesian Earthquake Prompts Tsunami Warning

Rupture Branching During the 2012 Mw 8. 6 Sumatra Earthquake L. Tsai Seismological observations of the 2012 moment magnitude 8. 6 Sumatra earthquake reveal unprecedented complexity of dynamic rupture. The surprisingly large magnitude results from the. EERI Newsletter, May 2012 Volume 46, Number 5 Note: This preliminary report was submitted by EERI member Lori Dengler and is based in part on the of Northern Sumatra. It was located within the Indo-Australian plate about 260 miles southwest of the Aceh coast at a depth of 23 km. This year's largest earthquake, a magnitude 8. 6 temblor on April 11 centered in the East Indian Ocean off Sumatra, did little damage, but it triggered quakes around the world for at least a week. Earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8. 6 Sumatra earthquake Lingsen Meng, Jean-Paul Ampuero, Joann M. Stock, Zacharie Duputel, Yingdi Luo, & Victor C. Tsai Published 2012, SCEC Contribution #1656 Seismological observations of the 2012 moment magnitude 8. 6 Sumatra earthquake reveal. April 11, BANGKOK — Two powerful earthquakes struck about two hours apart off the coast of Sumatra on Wednesday afternoon, spreading panic among residents of the Indonesian island and. In Indonesia, it obliterated much of the city of Banda Aceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, and killed about 225,000 people. 0 magnitude earthquake hit Lombok island, killing more. 2 earthquake struck about 66 kilometers (41 miles) north-northwest of Bukittinggi, a hilly town in West Sumatra province, according to the U. On the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia, a 7. 6-magnitude quake struck Wednesday evening just 30 miles off the coast of the city of Padang, killing at least 200 people and trapping thousands in. The well-studied Mw 8. 6, 11 April 2012, Sumatra doublet earthquake was the largest strike-slip event recorded in the history and was followed by another strike-slip earthquake of Mw 8. 2 that occurred within ∼2 hr of the first event (Singh et al. off the west coast of northern Sumatra - 8. 6 EARTHQUAKE - Banda Aceh, Binjai, Sunggal, Medan, Belawan, Percut, Perbaungan, Pematangsiantar, Tebingtinggi, Padangsidempuan, Kisaran, Tanjungbalai, Rantauprapat, Kampung Sungai Ara, George Town, and Butterworth - 2012-04-11 08:38:36 UTC 2012-04-11 09:00:18 UTC at 09:00 April 11, 2012 UTC. Lampuuk on the island of Sumatra before and after the Banda Aceh earthquake on Boxing Day, 2004 (December 26, 2004). Lampuuk is located on the northwesternmost peninsula of the island. The image on the left shows the area prior to the tsunami and, on the right, the area after the tsunami. Tsunami waves swept from west to east across this region. On 11 April 2012, a strong earthquake of magnitude Ms8. 6 occurred near the west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. In this paper, we investigated the morphological characteristics of anomalous variations in Global Positioning System Total Electron Content (GPS TEC) prior to the earthquake by the method of the statistical analysis. It was found the TEC anomaly was firstly decreased, then, it.

Tohoku Earthquake And Tsunami

The first one was a magnitude 6. 7 M W earthquake that struck off the coast of Biobío, Chile, at 23:21 on 15 March 2010 at the epicenter, at a depth of 18 kilometres (11 mi). The second earthquake struck on land in the region at 22:58 ( UTC) on 2 April 2010 at 5. 9 M W and at a depth of 39 km (24 mi). EERI Newsletter, May 2012 Volume 46, Number 5 Note: This preliminary report was submitted by EERI member Lori Dengler and is based in part on the of Northern Sumatra. It was located within the Indo-Australian plate about 260 miles southwest of the Aceh coast at a depth of 23 km. We studied ionospheric responses to the 2012 April 11 Mw8. 6 North Sumatra earthquake using total electron content (TEC) measurements with the regional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) network.

PDF April 11, 2012, M 8+ Sumatra Earthquakes - This earthquake ruptured the oceanic lithosphere off the Indian Ocean coast of North Sumatra, and is known as the largest strike-slip earthquake ever recorded. The 2012 aftershock pattern reflects the complexity of the initial faulting, and lacks any clear indication of long simple structures originating near the epicenters of either of the two great earthquakes (Fig. Instead, the aftershocks spread within a two-dimensional pattern stretching from near the Sumatra Trench to the Ninety-East Ridge and between the latitudes of roughly 1. Introduction [2] On April 11, 2012 (08:38:37 UTC), a Mw 8. 6 earthquake, which is the greatest strike-slip earthquake ever instrumentally recorded, occurred off the west coast of Sumatra Island. Nearly two hours later, a Mw 8. 2 aftershock with a similar focal mechanism initiated approximately 180 km to SSW of the epicenter of the mainshock (2. 063°E, given by the United States. The former investigated the August 15, 2007 seism that happened in Peru (13. 60°W), while the latter studied an earlier earthquake that occurred in Sumatra on April 11, 2012 (2. Orthogonal faulting and compressional branching indicate that rupture was controlled by a pressure-insensitive strength of the deep oceanic lithosphere. Seismological observations of the 2012 moment magnitude 8. 6 Sumatra earthquake reveal unprecedented complexity of dynamic rupture. The surprisingly large magnitude results from the combination. The red and black stars indicate the USGS determined epicenters for the 2012 Off Northern Sumatra (M w 8.

6) and 2004 Sumatra-Andaman (M w 9. (c) Locations, timings and amplitudes for the stack with the maximum correlation at each time step (2 s). The dashed gray line is the Sumatra trench. In this paper, the elastic dislocation is used to compute the co-seismic Earth rotation change due to the 2012 Sumatra earthquake ( M w8. Polar motion and variation in LOD ( Δ LOD) are estimated by adopting three fault models and we compare it to the co-seismic earth rotation caused by the Tohoku event. 6 earthquake and the Sumatra Mw 8. 2 earthquake occurred near the Sunda trench one after another in April 11, The two earthquakes are 2 hours and 180 kilometers apart. 6 earthquakes occurred on 11 April 2012 and ruptured off the west coast of northern Sumatra. The fault slip models of the earthquake were estimated from different data, but have large. The earthquake struck below the North Pacific, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Sendai, the largest city in the Tohoku region, a northern part of the island of Honshu. The Tohoku earthquake caused a tsunami. A tsunami—Japanese for " harbor wave "—is a series of powerful waves caused by the displacement of a large body of water. The powerful magnitude-8. 6 earthquake that shook Sumatra on April 11, 2012, was a seismic standout for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was larger than scientists thought an. The 2012 Sumatra sequence, showing the first waves - mainly related to lithospheric heterogeneities - 28 days of aftershocks. The two largest events are indi- cause defocusing of BP images that needs to be corrected. cated by red stars; others are represented by yellow circles. Relocated epicenters and revised moment tensor solutions from.

Modeling The 2012 Wharton Basin Earthquakes Off

White arrows indicate the direction of motion of the Indo-Australian composite plate relative to the Sunda plate. On 11 April 2012, a great intraplate earthquake ( Mw 8. Earthquake+ Like Tweet Earthquake+ | Earthquakes Map, News, Alert & Info With over 1,000,000 downloads our popular Earthquake+ app is the best earthquake monitoring app in the world! Earthquake+ app is the most comprehensive app to display seismic activity and other useful info around the globe. 6 Wharton Basin earthquake occurred in the boundary between the Indian and Australian plate, approximately 150 km west of the Sunda megathrust. The location and number of faults. () -- 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. Request PDF | Dynamic triggering of microseismicity in Southwest China following the 2004 Sumatra and 2012 Indian Ocean Earthquakes | We conduct a systematic detection of microseismicity around. The 11 April 2012 M = 8. 6 east Indian Ocean earthquake is by far the largest strike-slip event ever recorded was a complex event rupturing a series of subparallel and conjugate faults with. Already a curiosity for its sheer size, the 8. 6-magnitude earthquake that shook the seafloor west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on April 11 appears to have been even weirder than scientists. In this study we conduct a systematic detection of microseismicity around Yunnan following the 2004 Sumatra and 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes. We find clear evidence of triggered seismicity in Yunnan following the 2004 mainshock, while no instantaneous triggering was observed in Yunnan or Tengchong volcanic region following the 2012 mainshock. The 2002 Sumatra earthquake occurred at 01:26 UTC on 2 November.

Quake Info: Major Magnitude 8.6 Earthquake

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Triggered tectonic tremor in various types of fault systems of Japan - Dynamic triggering of microseismicity in Southwest China following the 2004 Sumatra and 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes @article{Li2019DynamicTO, title={Dynamic triggering of microseismicity in Southwest China following the 2004 Sumatra and 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes}, author={Lu Li and Baoshan Wang and Zhigang Peng and Danning Li}, journal. Abstract: Earthquakes heavily deform the crust in the vicinity of the fault, which leads to mass redistribution in the earth interior. Then it will produce the change of the Earth's rotation (polar motion and length of day) due to the change of Earth inertial moment. This paper adopts the elastic dislocation to compute the co-seismic polar motion and variation in length of day (LOD) caused. Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Major magnitude 8. 6 earthquake - Indian Ocean, 437 km southwest of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, on Wednesday, Apr 11, 2012 02:38 pm (GMT +6) -. 6 Sumatra earthquake: Evidence of westward sequential seismic ruptures associated to the reactivation of a N‐S ocean fabric. The 11 April 2012 Mw 8. 6 earthquake offshore Sumatra is the largest of the rare great intraplate earthquakes of the instrumental era. 2 earthquake struck Southwest Of Sumatra, Indonesia about 13 minutes ago. EMCS reported a depth of 10km (6. The earthquake had occurred on April 11, 2012 with the scale of 8. List an example of another disaster that happened in your region in the past. Just recently Sumatra had another earthquake occur on September 1, 2016 with a scale of a 5.

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