“India plays a pivotal role in providing tsunami-related warnings to member ... the Sunda megathrust near Sumatra and the Makran Subduction Zone near Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the ...

The Makran Subduction Zone (MSZ), located in the northern Indian Ocean ... With major areas of its territory under water, the challenge in the aftermath of a tsunami will be enormous. — Kerala ...

Tamil Nadu and Kerala were severely affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26 ... are prone to tsunamis emanating from the two subduction zones: the Andaman-Nicobar-Sumatra Island Arc and ...

PCTWIN co-develops inclusive tsunami early warning systems for India’s coastlines ... are prone to tsunamis generated from subduction zones such as Makran, the northern part of the Sunda trench and ...

The outer coastline had tsunami waves of under three feet. The March 2011 Tohoku earthquake was the result of a subduction zone, where the Pacific plate moves under the Honshu plate. This movement ...

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is close to shore and a tsunami from this source would arrive within 10 to 20 minutes of a long or strong earthquake, allowing no time for official warnings.

Indonesia’s National Research & Innovation Agency (BRIN – Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional), jointly with the Meteorology, ...

An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides ... in the area during 1700 and caused large tsunami waves that propagated across the ocean,' the ...

In the past, such anomalies were usually linked to subduction zones—places where one tectonic plate slides beneath another. In those zones, slabs of oceanic crust plunge into the mantle ...