This island has diverse natural forest types; 218 species of vascular plants were recorded in a single 200-square-meter plot of dry lowland forest in the Tesso Nilo landscape of central …
Sumatra provides an accessible setting for studies of subduction processes. The likelihood for another Mw 8.0 earthquake there is high and monitoring should continue.
S DEFORESTATION FRONT SUMATRA The island of Sumatra has a long history of human intervention and comprises a diversity of land uses involving smallholder farming and large …
Abstract: Physiographically southern Sumatra can be divided into four zones, from the west to east: Mentawai, Bengkulu, Bukit Barisan and Jambi-Palembang Zones trending northwest …
Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. Its rain-forest tigers, a unique subspecies, were once widespread across the island until two major interlinked waves of defor-estation occurred.
The purpose of the study is to understand the Sumatra subduction zone and the potential for a tsunami geohazard. The geomorphology reveals possible clues that can reveal the seismic …
Rupture of a large patch of the Sumatran subduction zone produced a giant earthquake in 1797. Roughly the same patch ruptured again in 1833, just 36 years later. The magnitude of slip in …