These “seismic gaps” indicate high-risk zones for future big earthquakes. A seismic gap, for example, exists between the megathrust zones off the western and eastern coasts of Java.

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A strong undersea earthquake shook parts of Indonesia’s densely populated main island of Java, causing ...

Once every several hundred years or so, they generate a major megathrust earthquake and large tsunami. According to Suzanne Carbotte, the study's lead author and Columbia University marine ...

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 ...

At the interface of these two plates is a massive fault zone called the Nankai megathrust, which hosts earthquakes of magnitude 8 or greater every 100 to 150 years. The most recent such quake ...

An underwater earthquake, frequented by megathrust earthquakes, has the ability to morph the seafloor like an earthquake at the surface of the Earth does. The shifting of the seafloor can ...

The most destructive Cascadian earthquakes are likely to slam offshore of Washington state and Vancouver Island, new data reveal. The Cascadia megathrust is a massive fault thought capable of ...