Another Large Earthquake Off Coast Of Sumatra Likely
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 00:42
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. The recent seismic activity was not enough to release strain in the area's subduction zone, the researchers report in the journal Nature.
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