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

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

Nine out of the 10 largest earthquakes to occur in the last 100 years had been in subduction zones and by detailing ... significant impact than one generated in the northern Sumatra-Andaman seismic ...

This subduction zone is quite similar to the Sumatra earthquake region. The last Cascadia earthquake was estimated to have a magnitude of 9.0 and occurred in January 1700, generating a Pacific ...