On Wednesday another earthquake, well over 7 magnitude, was reported off Sumatra, in Indonesia.
The massive earthquake and tsunami on December 26th 2004 flattened the coastline of Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra.
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck deep beneath the Selat Mentawai (Mentawai Straight), between Sumatra and the nearby Simeulue and Nias Islands on April 6, 2010.
Local officials said at least 97 people were dead and hundreds more injured in Pidie Jaya, the district closest to the quake's epicenter, on the northern end of Indonesia's Sumatra island.
Sumatra itself is part of an island arc.
Sumatra is huge so we can look forward to 12-hour days on board with no fidgeting.
: one undersea ridge south of the Nicobars was once, he suspects, a piece of Sumatra that sunk in the distant past.
This year much more limited fires have raged, mainly in Riau, a province in central Sumatra of 6m people and about 90, 000 sq km-roughly the size of Portugal.
Australian authorities had rescued them from a boat between Sumatra and Christmas Island, an Australian territory.
5a marbled cat (Pardofelis marmorat) is captured on camera in Bukit Tigapuluh national park, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Thousands of people in Indonesia are spending the night in temporary shelters after a volcano in the province of North Sumatra erupted for the first time in 400 years.
Cattle race through rice fields in West Sumatra. The farmer holds on by the animals' tails.
The emergency response efforts to the earthquake that hit the Indonesian island of Sumatra is shifting to recovery and rebuilding efforts.
First impressions of Sumatra are not good.
The magnitude 7.6 quake was centred 32 miles north-west of the city in western Sumatra, said the US geological survey.
Analysis of the Energy Radiation Sources of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake Using Time-Domain Array Techniques;
The Dutch achieved a great measure of control over the pepper ports of Sumatra.
Sumatra and Central Java will be included in the next phase of the large-scale immunization campaigns, which will start from August.
a native or inhabitant of Sumatra.
There are about 60 sedimentary basins in Indonesia, 11 of them are oil and gas producing basins which are distributed on Sumatra, Java, East Kalimadan, East Indonesia and South China Sea.
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