Indonesia Earthquake 2010 News. Even though no destructive Tsunami has resulted through the Sumatra earthquake nowadays, Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center says there even now is often a higher possibility of your tsunami within the Andaman Price tag. A similar location was battered inside the Tsunami of 2004 killing five.400 persons.

This Indonesia earthquake struck at a depth of 29 miles off the northwest coast of Sumatra at five:15 am this morning based on the US Geological Survey, but there ended up no reports of deterioration. Electrical power is out inside Acehnese capital of Banda Aceh, nonetheless, cell phones were being nevertheless doing work.

Indonesia was hardest hit through the 2004 tsunami, with at the very least 168,000 men and women killed from the giant tsunami above the northern tip of Sumatra immediately after a 9.3-magnitude quake split the seabed towards island's west. A 7.6-magnitude quake killed about 1,000 folks from the port of Padang, western Sumatra, in September 2009.