![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090116031909im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Potential for Large Earthquake Off Coast of Sumatra Remains Large, Says Caltech-led Team
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December 3, 2008
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The subduction zone that brought us the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami is ripe for yet another large event, despite a sequence of quakes that occurred in the Mentawai Islands area in 2007, according to a group of earthquake researchers led by scientists from the Tectonics Observatory at the California Institute of Technology.
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Source California Institute of Technology
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