. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. Sun da trench Sumatra fault Figure 4. Large historical earthquakes between 4°N and 4°S on the Sunda Arc. Dotted lines indicate approximate extents (the 1797 event is not shown but most probably overlaps significantly with the 1833 event). Stars mark locations of epicenter of December 2004 (red) and March 2005 (yellow) events (after Nalbant et al., 2005). WHAT HAPPENED: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 26, 2004 The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was the largest event since the Good Friday
. Atoll research bulletin. Coral reefs and islands; Marine biology; Marine sciences. Sun da trench Sumatra fault Figure 4. Large historical earthquakes between 4°N and 4°S on the Sunda Arc. Dotted lines indicate approximate extents (the 1797 event is not shown but most probably overlaps significantly with the 1833 event). Stars mark locations of epicenter of December 2004 (red) and March 2005 (yellow) events (after Nalbant et al., 2005). WHAT HAPPENED: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EARTHQUAKE OF DECEMBER 26, 2004 The 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was the largest event since the Good Friday Alaskan earthquake of March 27, 1964, and the second largest since modern seismographic recording began a hundred years ago, releasing as much strain energy as all the global earthquakes between 1976 and 1990 combined (Park et al., 2005a). The earthquake's epicenter located at °N, near the northern end of the island of Sumatra. The rupture began at 00:58:47 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on December 26, 2004 affecting a 100 km section of the plate boundary. After one minute, and for the next four minutes, the "unzipping" of the plate boundary accelerated to a rate of 3 km s ' to the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Press; National Research Council (U. S. ). Pacific Science Board; Smithsonian Institution; National Museum of Natural History (U. S. ); United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Washington, D. C. : [Smithsonian Press]
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