Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Casualties. 227,898 dead [5] [6] On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7 ), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 Mw struck with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known by the scientific community as the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, [8] [9] was caused by a ...
Overview. Indonesia is an archipelagic country extending about 5,120 kilometres (3,181 mi) from east to west and 1,760 kilometres (1,094 mi) from north to south. [3] It is considered to be the largest archipelagic country in the world. According to a geospatial survey conducted between 2007 and 2010 by National Coordinating Agency for Survey ...
An enlargeable topographic map of the island of Java, the most populous island on Earth. Indonesia is: an equatorial megadiverse island country. Location: Eastern Hemisphere, on the Equator. Eurasia (though not on the mainland ) Asia.
Indonesia, [a] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [b] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at ...
The Ring of Fire (also known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, the Rim of Fire, the Girdle of Fire or the Circum-Pacific belt) [note 1] is a tectonic belt of volcanoes and earthquakes. It is about 40,000 km (25,000 mi) long [1] and up to about 500 km (310 mi) wide, [2] and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. The Ring of Fire contains between 750 ...
Gunung Padang is an archaeological site located in Karyamukti, Campaka, West Java, Indonesia, 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of the regency seat, or 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Lampegan station. Located at 885 metres (2,904 ft) above sea level, the site covers a hill—an extinct volcano—in a series of five terraces bordered by retaining ...
Summary. Description. Indonesia on the globe (Indonesia centered).svg. English: A map of the hemisphere centred on 118, -2.5, using an orthographic projection, created using gringer 's Perl script with Natural Earth Data (1:50000 resolution, simplified to 0.25px). Indonesia is highlighted in red. Date.
File:Indonesia location map.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 800 × 307 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 123 pixels | 640 × 245 pixels | 1,024 × 393 pixels | 1,280 × 491 pixels | 2,560 × 981 pixels | 1,200 × 460 pixels. Original file (SVG file, nominally 1,200 × 460 pixels, file size: 739 KB) This is a file from the ...