While our scenario is the “big one”, a M9.0 megathrust earthquake, this study is not a simulation because of the unpredictable nature of earthquakes. Rather, it is an assessment of what critical ...

She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest potential to be hit by megathrust earthquakes. Four of Indonesia's five big islands, Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Papua ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A powerful earthquake struck Indonesia's main island of Java on November 21st, killing over 160 people and injuring 700 in Indonesia. More from News A powerful ...

Earthquakes of this relatively small size are common in the Pacific Northwest, with most of them occurring out in the ocean. The last big, “megathrust” earthquake in the region, along the 600 ...

The Indonesian government plans to strengthen domestic housing construction standards to mitigate the impact of potential megathrust ... The major earthquakes in Java and Sumatra in 2006, 2007 ...

And since scientists figured out how to measure earthquake magnitude in the early 1900s, some truly massive quakes have shaken our planet. These are the monstrous "megathrust" earthquakes ...

Experts agree that over the next four decades B.C. has a one-in-10 chance of being hit by a magnitude-9 event, which is similar to the megathrust earthquake near Japan in 2011 that created a ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued the Nankai Trough Earthquake Extra Information (Megathrust Earthquake Alert), which calls on the public to take precautions against a possible megaquake over ...