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Megathrust earthquakes occur at
subduction zones at
destructive convergent plate boundaries,
where one
tectonic plate is
forced underneath another. These...
- The
Sunda megathrust is a
fault that
extends approximately 5,500 km (3300 mi) from
Myanmar (Burma) in the north,
running along the
southwestern side of...
- The
Aleutian Trench (or
Aleutian Trough) is an
oceanic trench along a
convergent plate boundary which runs
along the
southern coastline of
Alaska and the...
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Nankai megathrust earthquakes are
great megathrust earthquakes that
occur along the
Nankai megathrust – the
fault under the
Nankai Trough –
which forms...
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epicentre off the west
coast of
northern Sumatra. It was an
undersea megathrust earthquake that
registered a
magnitude of 9.1–9.3 Mw,
reaching a Mercalli...
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convergent plate boundaries are ****ociated with the most
powerful earthquakes,
megathrust earthquakes,
including almost all of
those of
magnitude 8 or more. Strike-slip...
- far
eastern Russia and the
Soviet Union in 1737, 1923 and 1952, were
megathrust earthquakes and
caused tsunamis. They
occurred where the
Pacific Plate...
- deaths.
Lasting four
minutes and thirty-eight seconds, the
magnitude 9.2
megathrust earthquake remains the most
powerful earthquake recorded in
North American...
- to a
lesser extent Chiba and Ibaraki.
Tokyo has been hit by
powerful megathrust earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855, 1923, and much more indirectly...
- A Kantō
earthquake (関東地震, kantō jishin) is a
megathrust earthquake occurring in the Kantō
region of ****an that
originate from
slippage in the
Sagami Trough...