The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating "megathrust" earthquakes with magnitudes of 9.0 or higher. Such an event, which last occurred over 300 years ago, could trigger a tsunami ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way. The plates can periodically lock up and ...

Some of the regions in Asia at high risk for these earthquakes include: The Indian Ocean is home to the Sunda megathrust, where the Indo-Australian Plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian Plate.

A megathrust earthquake occurs due to the collision of tectonic plates in a subduction zone, an area where one tectonic plate is forced under another. Megathrust earthquakes have a high potential to ...

A megathrust is a very large earthquake that occurs in a subduction zone, resulting in a magnitude of 8 to 9. She said that the BMKG had also mapped 13 zones in Indonesia with the highest ...