244 km SW of Medan, Indonesia / pop: 1,750,971 / local time: 10:12:21.4 2015-05-08
111 km W of Sibolga, Indonesia / pop: 79,714 / local time: 10:12:21.4 2015-05-08
For more information on computation, see the article Bossu et al., 2016:
Thumbnail Based Questionnaires for the Rapid and Efficient Collection of Macroseismic Data from Global Earthquakes, Rémy Bossu, Matthieu Landès, Fréderic Roussel, Robert Steed, Gilles Mazet-Roux, Stacey S. Martin, and Susan Hough. Seismological Research Letter. Oct 2016. doi: 10.1785/0220160120;
Furthermore, to avoid the association with wrong events, we filter testimonies in distance and in intensity depending on the magnitude of the seismic event.
References for tectonic plate boundaries:
Coffin, M.F., Gahagan, L.M., and Lawver, L.A., 1998, Present-day Plate Boundary Digital Data Compilation. University of Texas Institute for Geophysics Technical Report No. 174, pp. 5.
Maps view: Seismicity from the previous 7 days in the area .
Regional instrumental seismicity
This seismicity maps have been generated by concatenating the ISC catalogue (since 1964), the EMSC Euro-Med Bulletin catalogue and the EMSC Real Time catalogue. Therefore, they show the seismicity from 1964 until the earthquake occurrence.
Regional deadly earthquakes from 1500 to origin time
Date
Long.
Lat.
Mag.
Death
Location
1861-02-16
97.5
0.5
8.4
great
NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
1861-03-09
98.0
0.0
7.0
750
NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
1907-01-04
96.3
2.0
7.8
400
SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
2002-11-02
96.1
2.8
7.2
3
SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
2004-12-26
95.9
3.3
9.0
228000
OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA
2005-03-28
97.1
2.0
8.6
1303
NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2006-12-17
99.8
0.6
5.8
7
NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2008-01-22
97.5
1.1
6.1
1
NIAS REGION, INDONESIA
2008-02-20
96.0
2.9
7.3
3
SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
2011-09-05
97.9
2.9
6.6
10
NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA
2012-07-25
96.1
2.7
6.4
1
SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
2012-07-25
95.8
2.5
6.6
1
SIMEULUE, INDONESIA
Source:
From 1500 to 1999: T. Utsu ; International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology; vol. A; 691-718
Testimonies, photos
USGS/NEIC Denver, USA
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