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Historic Earthquake
1964 Indonesia Earthquake
2 April 1964 · Banda Aceh · Indonesia
On 2 April 1964 at 01:11 UTC, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Indonesia (Banda Aceh), at a depth of 130 km. It occurred on the Sunda Plate, 36 km from its boundary with the Burma Plate (continental transform fault). It triggered a tsunami.
- Date
- 2 April 1964
- Time
- 01:11 UTC
- Magnitude
- 7.0
- Depth
- 130 km
- Maximum Intensity
- VII (Mercalli)
- Tsunami
- Yes
- Plate
- Sunda Plate
- Country
- Indonesia
- Nearest Volcano
- Peuet Sague (129 km)
Nearby Major Earthquakes
Other major earthquakes recorded within 300 km.
- 20162016 Aceh Earthquake · M 6.5104 deaths
- 20132013 Aceh Earthquake · M 6.148 deaths
- 2010May 2010 Northern Sumatra Earthquake · M 7.2
- 20042004 Indian Ocean Earthquake · M 9.1227,899 deaths
- 1967N Sumatera, Malay Peninsula · M 6.114 deaths
- 1955Little Nicobar Island · M 7.3
- 1936Banda Aceh, Lhok Sukon · M 7.39 deaths
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Significant Earthquake Database (doi:10.7289/V5TD9V7K) · Wikidata · Bird (2003), PB2002 · Natural Earth