The 2011 Tohoku earthquake is another striking example–after the 2008 Wenchuan and 2010 Haiti earthquakes–of highly destructive earthquakes that occurred in areas predicted …
On 12 May 2008, the devastating magnitude 7.9 (Wenchuan) earthquake struck the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, collapsing buildings and killing thousands in major cities …
Hardly a week passes without our learning of natural geologic disaster somewhere in the world, be it a volcanic eruption, landslide, or destructive earthquake. The prominent public …
The Wenchuan earthquake on the Longmen Shan fault zone devastated cities of Sichuan, claiming at least 69,000 lives. We calculate that the earthquake also brought the Xianshuihe …
Data collected at∼ 60 Global Positioning System (GPS) sites in southeast Asia show the crustal deformation caused by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake at an …
H Chen, C Qu, D Zhao, C Ma, X Shan - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The 21 May 2021 Maduo earthquake was the largest event to occur on a secondary fault in the interior of the active Bayanhar block on the north-central Tibetan plateau in the last …
DH Natawidjaja, W Triyoso - Journal of Earthquake and Tsunami, 2007 - World Scientific
The substantial portion of the dextral component of the Sumatran oblique convergence is accommodated by the Sumatran fault. This 1900 km-long active strike-slip fault zone runs …
EA Okal, CE Synolakis - Geophysical journal international, 2008 - academic.oup.com
We evaluate far-field tsunami hazard in the Indian Ocean Basin based on hydrodynamic simulations of ten case studies of possible mega earthquakes at the major seismic zones …