About the Earthquake:
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea megathrust earthquake of moment magnitude 9.0 that struck the Indian Ocean off the western coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 UTC (07:58:53 local time in Jakarta and Bangkok). It was the largest earthquake on Earth since the 9.2-magnitude Good Friday Earthquake which struck Alaska on March 27, 1964, and the fourth largest since 1900 (tied with a 1952 earthquake of 9.0 magnitude in Kamchatka). More than a hundred thousand people were killed by tsunamis of heights of up to 15 m, which flooded coastlines between 15 minutes and 10 hours after the quake, causing the deadliest tsunami in recorded history and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history.
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Images Received at Station COWO at The College of Wooster:
The above image is the seismograph. It shows the exact time that the seismic waves reached our station. According to the readings, the waves hit at about 01:19:00 (UTC). The actual earthquake occured at 00:53:58 (UTC), meaning the seismic waves took approximately 26 minutes to travel through the earth and reach Wooster.
This image is a record of the entire day. The earthquake in the Indian Ocean is quite evident and stands out against the otherwise flat record.