Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and making the easternmost corner of Africa (the Horn of Africa) a large island," federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey said. Research ...

Thursday marks the 20 th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami ... it also broke some of the rules,” said Kerry Sieh, a geology professor at the California Institute of Technology ...

The epicenter of the 9.0 magnitude quake was under the Indian Ocean near the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which monitors earthquakes ...

Known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL), this region experiences ... researchers used geodynamic models to reconstruct the ...

A Monograph of Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Physical Features ana Geology. By C. W. Andrews, with descriptions of the Fauna and Flora by numerous contributors. Pp. xv + 237. (London ...

The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles) southwest of Albany on the southwest tip of Western Australia state at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the U.S. Geological ...

allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and making the easternmost corner of Africa (the Horn of Africa) a large island," federal scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey said. Research ...