researchers almost missed what they're calling the "nascent plate boundary." But two enormous clues — that is, two strong earthquakes originating in a strange spot in the Indian Ocean ...

A pair of massive earthquakes that rocked the Indian Ocean on 11 April 2012 may signal the latest step in the formation of a new plate boundary within Earth’s surface. Seismologists have ...

Known officially as the 'Indian Ocean Geoid Low', it isn't ... Earthquakes typically occur at the boundaries of tectonic plates, where one plate dips below another, thrusts another upward, or ...

The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL ... The fate of the IOGL depends on how plate tectonics and mantle dynamics evolve. As Prof. Ghosh notes, “It could be that it persists for a very long time.

Nepal 2015 earthquake was a wake up call for a country that is situated on a dangerous geological faultline, where the Indian ... Tethys Ocean and mantle changes caused by tectonic plate shifts.

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake ... was 30 km below the ocean floor, in the Sunda trench, where part of the Indo-Australian plate subducts beneath ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and ... The 2004 earthquake ripped through 1,300 km of the plate boundary, the fault tearing from Sumatra in the ...