The Logistics
The earthquake's epicenter was in the Indian Ocean at the coordinates 3.316°N, 95.854°E, right off the coast of western Indonesia, near Sumatra. It occurred on December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). The tremor was caused by the shifting The magnitude of the earthquake is estimated to have been around 9.1 to 9.3 Mw.