The island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Darker blue indicates deeper waters (up to 5,000 m); light blue/white indicated shallow waters and sea level. Not far from the western coast of Sumatra, the Australian Plate is sliding under the Sunda plate. Marked in red is the city of Padang, which may yet see worse Earthquakes. Credit: NASA Earth ObservatoryFrom The Cosmos:
PARIS: A huge earthquake, capable of generating a tsunami as deadly as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami is set to strike off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, according to seismologists.
Led by John McCloskey, a professor of the Environmental Sciences Research Institute at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, who predicted a 2005 Sumatran quake with uncanny accuracy, the seismologists issued the warning in a letter to the journal Nature Geoscience.
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