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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.
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...
18 gru 2008 · Epicenters of the two megathrust earthquakes (2004, 2005) indicated by stars; bold line is Sunda Trench, dotted line is the Sumatra fault, and triangles are the volcanic arc. Grey contour lines show sediment thickness. Oceanic plate age and margin-normal convergence rate are indicated.
15 mar 2013 · Map showing the West Sumatra subduction zone. The Indo-Australian Plate is moving toward the Eurasian Plate forming the Sunda Trench. The blue circles on the inset map of the Sunda Arc marks the position of the Sunda Strait, and the red box is the location of the study area.
1 maj 2009 · This zone can generate earthquakes of relatively large magnitudes, which can trigger tsunamis. ... Local site effects and seismic microzonation around Suban Area, Curup Rejang Lebong,...
The Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, [1] is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn plates subduct under a part of the Eurasian Plate.
Red line is the inter-plate thrust that intersects the sea floor along the Sunda Trench. Light yellow shaded area indicates the possible region where tsunami generated by earthquake will strike...
