The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

Some of the regions in Asia at high risk for these earthquakes include: The Indian Ocean is home to the Sunda megathrust, where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate.

Forecasting the size of future megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis by exploiting the new technology of offshore and onshore geophysical observations. We aim to assess the potential for megathrust ...

She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest potential to be hit by megathrust earthquakes. Four of Indonesia's five big islands, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua ...

PIKIRAN RAKYAT – Indonesia is one of the countries located in an earthquake-prone region, with one of the greatest potential disasters being a megathrust earthquake. A megathrust earthquake occurs due ...

An earthquake has struck the main Indonesian island of Java, leaving at least 252 people dead and hundreds injured. Videos on social media showed some buildings reduced almost entirely to rubble ...

The largest and most destructive earthquakes nucleate on the seismogenic parts of megathrust faults along subduction zones. Understanding the controls of rupture propagation in along-trench and dip ...

The Indonesian government plans to strengthen domestic housing construction standards to mitigate the impact of potential megathrust ... The major earthquakes in Java and Sumatra in 2006, 2007 ...