The disaster came just two months after heavy rains triggered flash floods and a landslide in West Sumatra's Pesisir Selatan ... Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific ...

Local earthquake faults include the Tacoma fault, the Seattle fault ... This subduction zone is quite similar to the Sumatra earthquake region. The last Cascadia earthquake was estimated to ...

The Mediterranean, Caribbean and the South Atlantic have geological systems “almost identical” to the Sumatra fault line which caused the seaquake of last December 26, according to a French ...

In 2018, the side of the Anak Krakatau volcano collapsed in a powerful eruption and produced a tsunami that killed hundreds and injured thousands on nearby Java and Sumatra in Indonesia.

“The nearest one is the Pacific Ring of Fire located behind Sumatra, which is almost four times larger than West Malaysia in terms of land area,” said Rusli. The only active fault line in this ...