A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck the Indian Ocean on December 9, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported. The event was recorded at 12:32:54 IST at coordinates 2.80°N, 96.10°E and occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km.
Shallow quakes like this one can produce stronger ground shaking at the surface and are more likely to generate noticeable aftershocks, because seismic waves travel a shorter distance to the surface.
The NCS posted the details on X (formerly Twitter). Earlier in December, on December 2, the agency recorded another event in the region: a magnitude 4.8 quake at 18:46:29 IST located near 0.64°N, 98.70°E with a depth of about 63 km.
For historical perspective, the Indian Ocean region experienced the devastating Sumatra–Andaman (Boxing Day) earthquake on December 26, 2004. That undersea megathrust event, magnitude 9.2–9.3, ruptured the interface between the Burma and Indian plates, reached very high shaking intensities in places and triggered a tsunami with waves reported up to 30 m, causing massive loss of life across many countries.
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