The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

"We don't know exactly what they are or what material is creating the patterns we have uncovered," researcher Thomas Schouten said.

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to ...

Indonesia has several subduction zones that stretch from the tip of Sumatra Island to Papua. The latest research conducted by the National Earthquake Study Center (PuSGen) team in 2017 found that ...

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.

Image 1 of 3 NIAS, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 29: Houses lie destroyed at Sirombu village December 29, 2004 in Nias, North Sumatra ... earthquake was caused by the subduction of the Indo-Australian ...

Subduction zones like the Andaman-Sumatra region are becoming significant as they provide clues to earthquake generation. The discovery of slow slips — tectonic faults that move many orders of ...

This subduction zone is quite similar to the Sumatra earthquake region. The last Cascadia earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 9.0 and occurred in January 1700, generating a Pacific ...