";s:4:"text";s:2688:"A recent earthquake in 2007 had damaged or destroyed over 43,000 houses. More than 1,000 people were feared dead and many more trapped under collapsed buildings last night after a powerful earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra. On September 30, 2009 at 17:16 pm, a powerful earthquake struck off the western Sumatra coast in Indonesia, measuring 7.6 degrees on the Richter Scale. The earthquake in Sumatra came 24 hours after a huge tsunami struck Samoa at dawn on Tuesday – triggered by an earthquake … Figure 1 shows a detailed map of the rupture zones for all three of these giant quakes. The epicentre was 45 kilometres west-northwest of the port city of Padang, Sumatra (population approximately 900,000). ... of magnitude 6.9, struck … A magnitude 7.6 quake occurred at 5:16 p.m. local time, some 45 kilometers (30 miles) west-northwest of Padang, and a magnitude 5.5 quake struck 22 minutes later, roughly 40 kilometers (25 … This was followed by another 6.8-magnitude aftershock on 1 October. As a result of numerous disasters, both the provincial and national The September 30, 2009, M 7.6 earthquake of southern Sumatra occurred as a result of oblique reverse faulting at an intermediate depth, approximately 80 km beneath the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Sumatra, and near the subduction interface plate boundary between the Australia and Sunda plates. Hundreds if not thousands of people were buried under rubble, and the city of Padang was cut off from the outside world on September 30, 2009, after earthquakes struck southern Sumatra, said news reports. A second quake measuring 6.2 occurred 22 minutes later.
(The timeframe does not include outlying events like the earlier 1361 Shōhei earthquake and 869 Sanriku earthquake, both estimated to have magnitude ≥ 8.5.) Land Earthquakes Background: On 30 September 2009, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake severely hit the coast of Padang city in West Sumatra, Indonesia leaving about 1,117 people dead and injuring another 3,515. Padang, W Sumatra (ANTARA) - A 5.3-magnitude tectonic earthquake rocked Tua Pejat, Mentawai Islands District, West Sumatra, on Saturday, at around 5:36 a.m. local time, though no immediate reports were received on casualties in the aftermath of the strong quake.