Potential for large earthquake off coast of Sumatra remains large
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - 13:28
in Earth & Climate
The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group of earthquake researchers led by scientists from the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
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