Comparison Of Earthquake And Tsunami

Several seismic activities occurred along the active Sunda megathrust which located along the Western Coast of Sumatra. The thrust stretched from Myanmar in the north goes down to southeast, along the southern coast of Java and Bali, which end up near Australia (Brown et al., 2015). This megathrust was responsible for the Krakatau eruption and the December 2004 tsunami in the west coast of Aceh province of Indonesia (Chlieh et al., 2007 in Brown et al., 2015). O'Neil (2005 in Sirikulchayanon et al., 2008) stated that since 1750, the Indian Ocean was never experienced a tremendous natural disaster such on the December 2004 Earthquake and Tsunami which resulted big impact toward human and environment in the affected