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1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake
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Earthquake in Indonesia
August 2024
1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake 1931-09-25 05:59:51 907033 iscgem907033 1931 09 25 yes 12:59 Indonesia Sumatra
7.3 w y IX (Destructive) 35 km mi 0 on 5.18 S 102.51 E inline,title Indonesia 1 m
The 1931 Southwest Sumatra earthquake occurred on 25 September at 05:59 UTC. It was located between the Enggano Island and Sumatra, Indonesia, then under the rule of Dutch East Indies. It had a magnitude of w y 7.3,International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology Part A, Volume 81A Global seismicity: 1900–1999 E. R. Engdahl A. Vallaseñor 2002 https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/centennial/centennial.pdf Academic Press First 978-0124406520 676 or s y 7.5.http://home.iitk.ac.in/~vinaykg/Iset459.pdf Tsunami Sources in the Sumatra Region, Indonesia and Simulation of the 26 December 2004. Aceh Tsunami ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology Paper No. 459 42 4 December 2005 111–125 Puspito, Nanang T. Gunawan, Indra ftp://ftp.gps.caltech.edu/pub/avouac/Ge277-2007-fall/Newcomb_JGR1987.pdf 10.1029/JB092iB01p00421 Seismic history and seismotectonics of the Sunda Arc 1987 Newcomb K. R. McCann W. R. 92 B1 421 Journal of Geophysical Research 1987JGR....92..421N
The earthquake occurred off southwest Sumatra. Some huts were shifted by about 0.5 metre. The earthquake could be felt in Padang, more than 500 km away and in Bandung, about 600 km away. It was reported that the earthquake was even felt in Pamekasan, Madura Island, about 1250 km away. A tsunami of 1 metre high was reported.Significant Earthquake Database https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 https://web.archive.org/web/20060929000601/http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/nndc/struts/form?t=101650&s=1&d=1 dead 29 September 2006 National Geophysical Data Center / World Data Service (NGDC/WDS) National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA 10.7289/V5TD9V7K 1972 Data Set
See also
List of earthquakes in 1931
List of earthquakes in Indonesia
References
Martin S. S. Cummins P. R. Meltzner A. J. Gempa Nusantara: A Database of 7380 Macroseismic Observations for 1200 Historical Earthquakes in Indonesia from 1546 to 1950 Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 112 6 2022 0037-1106 10.1785/0120220047 2958–2980 2022BuSSA.112.2958M 253365854 10356/166257 free
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