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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.
A magnitude 8.7 earthquake rattled northern Sumatra, Indonesia, on March 28, 2005, at 11:09 p.m., local time. At least 330 people are dead, but Indonesian officials expect the toll to soar over 2,000.
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).
30 paź 2022 · Great earthquakes close to the Java trench are typically interplate faulting events along the slab interface between the Australia and Sunda plates; these earthquakes generally have high tsunamigenic potential due to their shallow depths (Jones et al. 2014).
17 wrz 2020 · Our earthquake relocation results show clear elongated zones, located between the coast of Java and the Java Trench, which lack seismicity and hence are identified as seismic gaps (Figs. 1b and...
Associated seismicity. The subduction of the Indo-Australian Plate beneath a bloc of the Eurasian Plate is associated with numerous earthquakes. Several of these earthquakes are notable for their size, associated tsunamis, and/or the number of fatalities they caused.
8 cze 2005 · The massive earthquake that struck off the west coast of Sumatra on 28 March, causing fears of another tsunami disaster, is confirmed as a rupture of the Sunda megathrust triggered by the...
