Potential for large earthquake off coast of Sumatra remains large
Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 05:53
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)...