The location of the Makran subduction zone of Pakistan and Iran and locations of recorded earthquakes including the 1945 magnitude 8.1 earthquake (red dot to the north indicates the 1947 magnitude ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Makran has 1,000 kilometres of coastline and the Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone being developed since 2003. That makes the city crucial for making it an international trade corridor ...

India monitors two significant fault lines: the Sunda megathrust near Sumatra and the Makran Subduction Zone near Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan in the Arabian Sea. “Both are prone to ...