Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world's most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake.

These tsunami-generating earthquakes originate mainly in subduction zones, where tectonic plates ... a magnitude 9.1 earthquake occurred off Sumatra, an Indonesian island in the Indian Ocean.

Understanding of the Sumatran subduction zone and its hazards has increased since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ...

The powerful earthquake that struck in Northern California on Thursday prompted a brief tsunami warning affecting about 5 million people along a stretch of the West Coast — from Northern California to ...

Indonesia has several subduction zones that stretch from the tip of Sumatra Island to Papua. The latest research conducted by the National Earthquake Study Center (PuSGen) team in 2017 found that ...