Earthquake Occurred in Andaman - 7.7 Magnitude Recorded

Magnitude	7.6
Date-Time	Monday, August 10, 2009 at 19:55:39 UTC Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 01:55:39 AM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones
Location	14.013°N, 92.923°E
Depth	33.1 km (20.6 miles)
Region	ANDAMAN ISLANDS, INDIA REGION
Distances	260 km (160 miles) N of Port Blair, Andaman Islands, India 365 km (225 miles) SSW of Pathein (Bassein), Myanmar 825 km (510 miles) W of BANGKOK, Thailand 2295 km (1420 miles) SE of NEW DELHI, Delhi, India
Location Uncertainty	horizontal +/- 9.8 km (6.1 miles); depth +/- 5.7 km (3.5 miles)
Parameters	NST= 64, Nph= 64, Dmin=833.8 km, Rmss=0.86 sec, Gp= 72°, M-type=(unknown type), Version=6
Source	USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)
Event ID	us2009kdb2

The Andaman Islands earthquake of August 10, 2009, occurred in the boundary region of India plate and the Burma plate, near the north end of the rupture zone associated with the great Sumatra—Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004. Early analysis of seismographic data implies that the earthquake occurred as the result of normal faulting on a north-northeast or northeast trending fault plane. This style of faulting is consistent with the earthquake occurring as a result of stresses generated by bending of the India plate as it subducts beneath the Burma plate. The August 10 earthquake was therefore an intraplate earthquake, in contrast to the great 2004 earthquake, which was an interplate thrust-fault earthquake on the interface between the India plate and the Burma plate. Although the style of faulting that caused the August 10, 2009 earthquake differs from the style of faulting that caused the great 2004 earthquake, it is possible that changes in regional tectonic strain-field caused by the 2004 earthquake made conditions more favorable for the occurrence of the 2009 earthquake than would otherwise have been the case. It is noteworthy that in the days immediately following the 2004 earthquake there were a large number of normal-faulting earthquakes in the subducted India plate of the Andaman Islands region. The largest Andaman Islands intraplate normal-fault earthquake in the immediate aftermath of the 2004 earthquake was more than an order of magnitude smaller than the August 10, 2009, earthquake.