JAKARTA, INDONESIA -- A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's northwestern island of Sumatra early Wednesday, prompting a brief tsunami warning and sending residents rushing for higher ground.

(Adds no tsunami in Indonesia, Malaysia report) By Ahmad Pathoni JAKARTA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake measuring 8.2 struck Indonesia's Sumatra region on Wednesday, t ...

A Boxing Day Surprise: An Earthquake and Tsunami The 9.1-magnitude earthquake struck at 7:59 a.m. Dec. 26, 2004, creating a rupture more than 600 miles long, 19 miles beneath the surface of the ...

SOUTH PESISIR, Indonesia — Bendri lived with his wife and child just 80 meters, or 260 feet, back from the Surantih Mudiak Dalam River, which flows from Sumatra’s Barisan Mountains down to the ...

The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 remains one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history. Some 230,000 people died as ...

In 2018, the eruption of Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau caused it to topple into the sea, triggering a tsunami that struck the coasts of the main Java and Sumatra islands, killing more than 400 people.

World Quake Rattles Sumatra, Triggers Tsunami Warning September 12, 20071:00 PM ET Heard on Day to Day By ...

JAKARTA, Aug 29 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck near Mentawai Islands, off the western coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on Monday, the country's geophysics agency (BMKG) said.

A tsunami generated from a Mentawais quake would send a wave southwest out into the empty Indian Ocean. But the wave would also hit Sumatra's densely populated coast between Padang and Bengkulu.

The 2022 MW 7.3 Southern Sumatra Tsunami Earthquake: Rupture Up-Dip of the 2007 MW 8.4 Bengkulu Event Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth Published: 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1029 ...

Sumatra was devastated by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 183,000 people in 11 countries and left 129,000 missing.