Medan – The Earthquake Center of the Meteorology, Meteorology, and Geophysics Company (BMKG) -Medan Office has taped 27 earthquakes that happened in the Indonesian provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra in the fourth week of December 2021.
” Towards Christmas 2021 and New Year 2022, the BMKG tape-recorded 27 earthquakes in North Sumatra and Aceh between December 17 and December 23,” the firm’s researcher, Marzuki Sinambela, stated in Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, on Sunday.
The seismic activities in Aceh and North Sumatra in the fourth week of December 2021 happened in the Megathrust Zone and a few of them were topped numerous locations of the Sumatran Fault section.
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Based upon records for a week in Aceh and North Sumatra, there had been 23 earthquakes with a small magnitude scale or below magnitude 4.0, and 4 others with magnitudes of in between 4.0 and 5.0, he said.
Describing the depth of seismic activities during the week, the company taped 24 shallow earthquakes under 60 km, and three earthquakes at depths in between 60 and 300 km, he said.
On the other hand, the firm’s expert, Endah Puspita Sari, discussed that during the previous week, there were 18 earthquakes that took place on land and nine others at sea.
” Of the 27 earthquakes, three of them are significant since the tremblings can be felt by homeowners. They are the earthquakes that rattled the areas of Gunung Sitoli and West Nias ( in North Sumatra), in addition to in Takengon ( Aceh),” she said.
” The BMKG urges individuals at big to stay alert and stay calm. They are likewise recommended to respond quickly to BMKG info, and to keep their distance if an earthquake takes place during the COVID-19 pandemic,” Sari stated.
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