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As the image illustrates, the earthquakes occurred just east of the Sunda Trench, the deep underwater canyon where the Australia Plate is being pulled under the Sunda Plate. The plates, giant sections of the Earth’s crust, float on a layer of soft rock, propelled by convection currents beneath them.
30 mar 2005 · This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Massive Earthquake Along the Sunda Trench. Map courtesy USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. Published March 30, 2005. Did you find what you were looking for?
28 mar 2005 · As the image illustrates, the earthquakes occurred just east of the Sunda Trench, the deep underwater canyon where the Australia Plate is being pulled under the Sunda Plate. The plates, giant sections of the Earth's crust, float on a layer of soft rock, propelled by convection currents beneath them.
Red star shows the epicentre of the 2004 earthquake and the brown shaded region shows the rupture zone. The proximal toe of the Bassein slide is marked by a solid black line and the distal toe by...
4 lis 2009 · The earthquake was centered 160 kilometers southeast of the 9.0 quake that triggered the devastating December 26,2004, tsunami, between the islands of Simeulue and Nias.
Sunda Trench. The Sunda Trench is a subduction zone extending in an arch from the Northwestern tip of Sumatra to Flores in Eastern Indonesia. A strong earthquake in this zone can generate a tsunami that arrives at the coast within 20 minutes, leaving little time for issuing an early warning.
8 lis 2023 · On 18 November 2022, a strong earthquake occurred in the near trench of Sunda Arc southwest of southern Sumatra, generating a small tsunami recorded at four tide gauge stations (KRUI, BINT, SBLT, and SIKA).
