Science news articles about 'earthquakes in sumatra'

... megathrust is storing strain that will be released during future large earthquakes. Earthquakes in Sumatra are the manifestation of a sudden release of strain that constantly builds as the plates ...

... authors, "we can say with some confidence that we're probably not done with large earthquakes in Sumatra." Their findings were published in a letter in the December 4 issue of the journal Nature. ...

Scientists are forecasting that in the next several decades there will be another major earthquake off Sumatra like the one that spawned the tsunami in 2004.

The major earthquake in Sumatra in 2004 may have weakened California's San Andreas fault 8,000km away.