2022 Sumatra earthquake

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2022 Sumatra earthquake

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UTC time 2022-02-25 01:39:27

ISC event 622071228

USGS-ANSS ComCat

Local date 25 February 2022

 Local time 8:39:27 WIB (UTC+7)

Magnitude 6.2 Mw

Depth 12.3 km (8 mi)

0.233°N 100.106°ECoordinates:  0.233°N

Epicenter
100.106°E[1]

Fault Great Sumatran fault

Areas affected West Sumatra, Indonesia

Total damage Rp 780 million[2]

Max. intensity VI (Strong)[3]

Foreshocks 5.0 Mw[4]

Aftershocks 124 recorded, strongest is 4.8 Mw[5]

Casualties 14 dead (13 direct + 1 indirect)

388 injured, 4 missing

13,000 displaced

On 25 February 2022, a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck West Sumatra, Indonesia.

[6]
 According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck at a depth of 12.3
kilometres (7.6 mi) and had an epicenter in Pasaman.[1] At least 14 people died, 388
were injured, and 4 others were missing. Severe damage occurred in Tigo Nagari
District, Pasaman.[7]

Contents

 1Tectonic setting
 2Earthquake
 3Impact
o 3.1Casualties
 4Response
 5See also
 6References
 7External links

Tectonic setting[edit]

Great Sumatra fault

The west coast of Sumatra is dominated by the Sunda megathrust; a 5,500 km[8] long

convergent boundary where the Australian Plate subducts beneath the Burma
Plate and Sunda Plate at a rate of 60 millimetres (2.4 in) per year.[9] Convergence along
this plate boundary is highly oblique, severely deforming the overriding Sunda Plate,
where it is accommodated by the strike-slip motion along the Great Sumatran fault. The
Great Sumatran fault is a 1,900-kilometre (1,200 mi)-long strike-slip fault system located
onshore on the island of Sumatra, which is divided into about 20 segments. [10] The
subduction zone offshore Sumatra was responsible for several large earthquakes
in 2004 and 2005. Dip-slip faults can rupture within the downgoing Australian Plate as
well; the 2009 magnitude 7.6 earthquake near Padang was caused by reverse faulting
at a depth of 80 km (50 mi).[11] Occasionally, the subduction plate interface ruptures in
earthquakes that reaches the trench, triggering large tsunamis such as in 1907, 2004
and 2010.[12] The Great Sumatran fault was the source of the 1994 Liwa and 1995
Kerinci earthquakes. It produced its largest earthquake during the 1943 Alahan
Panjang sequence; measuring Ms  7.8.[13]