1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:00:39 1 Tectonic setting
00:01:35 2 Damage
00:01:46 3 Characteristics
00:01:56 3.1 Earthquake
00:02:30 3.2 Tsunami
00:02:40 4 See also
00:02:54 5 References
00:04:13 Tsunami
00:04:23 The tsunami was recorded by eleven of a series of continuous tide gauges around the Bay of Bengal that had recently been deployed by the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. The ten gauges on the Indian mainland were synchronised using a telegraph to Madras (Chennai) time, while that at Port Blair was set by a chronometer linked to local time. The maximum recorded wave height was 1.22 m (4.0 ft) at Nagapattinam.



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The 1881 Nicobar Islands earthquake occurred at about 07:49 local time (01:49 UTC) on 31 December, with an epicentre beneath Car Nicobar. It occurred as two separate ruptures, the largest of which had an estimated magnitude of 7.9 on the moment magnitude scale and triggered a tsunami that was observed around the Bay of Bengal. It is probably the earliest earthquake for which rupture parameters have been estimated instrumentally.