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|title= 1941 Andaman Islands earthquake<br />
|timestamp = 1941-06-26 11:52:03<br />
|isc-event = 900863<br />
|anss-url = iscgem900863<br />
|local-date = {{Start date|1941|06|26}}<br />
|local-time = 17:22:03 [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]<br />
|map2 = {{Location map | India|relief=1<br />
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| lat=12.50<br />
| long=92.57<br />
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|magnitude = 7.7–8.1 [[Moment magnitude scale|M<sub>w</sub>]]<br />
|depth= <br />
|location={{coord|12.50|92.57|display=inline,title}}<br />
|countries affected = [[India]], [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], [[Sri Lanka]]<br />
|intensity = [[European macroseismic scale|VII (''Damaging'')]]<ref name=Martin/><br />
|tsunami = Yes<br />
|casualties = 8,000<br />
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The '''1941 Andaman Islands earthquake''' struck the [[Andaman Islands]] on June 26 with a magnitude of 7.7 to 8.1. Details of this event are poorly known as much of Southeast Asia was in the turmoil of [[World War II]]. The quake caused severe damage in the Andaman Islands and as many as 8,000 people were killed by the earthquake and tsunami in the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], [[India]], and [[Sri Lanka]]. There may have been damage and deaths in [[Bangladesh]], [[Myanmar]], and [[Thailand]] due to the tsunami.<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of earthquakes in 1941]]<br />
* [[List of earthquakes in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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<ref name=Martin>{{citation|title=A Catalog of Felt Intensity Data for 570 Earthquakes in India from 1636 to 2009|url=http://www.bssaonline.org/content/100/2/562.abstract|first=S.|last=Martin|first2=W.|last2=Szeliga|year=2010|journal=Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America|publisher=[[Seismological Society of America]]|series=Electronic Supplement (table S2)|volume=100|number=2|pages=562–569|doi=10.1785/0120080328|bibcode=2010BuSSA.100..562M}}</ref><br />
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'''Sources'''<br />
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* [http://drgeorgepc.com/Tsunami1941AndamanIslands.html Earthquake and tsunami of June 25, 1941 in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal] – George Pararas-Carayannis<br />
* [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~lareef/tsunami/science.html#1941_Tsunami_ 1941 Tsunami in the Bay of Bengal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224095721/http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~lareef/tsunami/science.html#1941_Tsunami_ |date=2017-12-24 }} – [[Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{EQ-isc-link|900863}}<br />
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{{Earthquakes in 1941}}<br />
{{Earthquakes in India}}<br />
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