The Sumatra Trench is a part of the Sunda Trench or Java Trench. The Sunda subduction zone (called also: the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone) is located...

Sunda Trench, earlier known as and sometimes still indicated as the Java Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed...

Oceanic trenches are prominent, long, narrow topographic depressions of the ocean floor. They are typically 50 to 100 kilometers (30 to 60 mi) wide and...

Trench. At this point, the India Plate subducts beneath the Burma Plate, which carries the Nicobar Islands, the Andaman Islands, and northern Sumatra...

31 in) per year at the Java Trench decreasing to 6.0 cm (2.4 in) ± 0.04 cm (0.016 in) per year at the southern Sumatra Trench. The eastern collision with...

the boiling point of water is over 400 °C. At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the pressure is 110 MPa. In the lithosphere, the pressure increases by...

The September 2007 Sumatra earthquakes were a series of megathrust earthquakes that struck the Sunda Trench off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, with three...

The Manila Trench is an oceanic trench in the Pacific Ocean, located west of the islands of Luzon and Mindoro in the Philippines. The trench reaches a...

zones. Examples of subduction zones include the Sumatra and Java trenches, Nankai Trough and Peru–Chile Trench which are frequent sources of these earthquakes...

Sunda Fold or tectonic folding in the Natuna Sea, the Sunda Trench, and Sundaland. Sumatra is the second largest, most westerly oriented Indonesian island...

earthquake occurrence processes in the Himalayas, the Burma plate, and the Sumatra trench, as well as crustal deformation measurements in the plate-boundary and...

isolates islands such as Borneo, Sumatra and Java Sunda Trench, is an oceanic trench located in the Indian Ocean near Sumatra, formed where the Australian-Capricorn...

Indian Ocean Sumatra Trench – Subduction trench in the Sumatra-Andaman subduction zone in the eastern Indian Ocean Sunda Trench – An oceanic trench in the Indian...

region runs further southward into the Bay of Bengal and joins the Sumatra Trench. In order to accommodate the India-Eurasia collision, extensive fault...

the seismic activity of an area of western Indonesia near the island of Sumatra. Seismicity refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced...

combined rupture of the Japan Trench and Kuril–Kamchatka Trench, or individually the Aleutian Trench or Peru–Chile Trench. Another possible area could...

periods when sea levels were lower. It includes Bali, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra in Indonesia, and their surrounding small islands, as well as the Malay...

Nias–Simeulue earthquake occurred on 28 March off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. At least 915 people were killed, mostly on the island of Nias...

between Indonesia and Malaysia. Greater Sunda Islands Borneo Java Sulawesi Sumatra Lesser Sunda Islands (from west to east) Bali Lombok Sumbawa Sumba Komodo...

Nias Basin (also known as the West Sumatra or Sibolga Basin) is a forearc basin located off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, in the Indian Ocean...

known as a subduction zone, and its surface expression is known as an arc-trench complex. The process of subduction has created most of the Earth's continental...

knife resembling a claw, associated with the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra. The karambit is one of the weapons commonly used in pencak silat and Filipino...

Eurasian Plate. The Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, and northwestern Sumatra are located on the plate. This island arc separates the Andaman Sea from...

geographical regions, four of which belong to the volcanoes of the Sunda Arc trench system. The remaining two groups are volcanoes of Halmahera, including its...

with a moment magnitude of 7.8 on 25 October off the western coast of Sumatra at 21:42 local time (14:42 UTC). The earthquake occurred on the same fault...

this fault is responsible for the creation of the Sunda Trench, and mountain ranges across Sumatra, Java, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. Many great earthquakes...

Central Java, East Java, Jakarta, North Sumatra, Lampung, South Sulawesi, South Sumatra, Banten, and West Sumatra (which would make it 11 provinces today...

Peru–Chile Trench Middle America Trench Aleutian Trench Kuril–Kamchatka Trench Japan Trench Ryukyu Trench Izu–Bonin Trench Mariana Trench Yap Trench Philippine...

from the large islands of Java or Sumatra in consisting of many small islands, sometimes divided by deep oceanic trenches. Movement of flora and fauna between...

Indo-Australian Plate dips beneath the Sunda Plate along the Sunda Trench also known as Java Trench, which generates frequent earthquakes and tsunamis. The plate...