120E

140E

MAP EXPLANATION

il
Ph

Mindanao

160E

ipp

Borneo

Philippine Sea

Magnitude

ine

Sunda Plate
Celebes Sea

Earthquakes M6.5+ 1900-2014

h
nc
Tre

6.5 - 7.0
7.0 - 7.5

88 mm/yr

7.5 +

Celebes Basin

Melanesian Basin

Nucleation Points (M8.3+)

West Caroline Basin

Halmahera

Sulawesi (Celebes)

Pacific Ocean

110 mm/yr

New
Seram

Trenc
Maluku
h

Papua

1938 M8.5

Banda Sea

Gui
n ea

Tren
c

10S

Timor

Sumba
1977 M8.3

Tim

Aftershock Zones

Subduction
Transform
Divergent

Indonesia

Others

Pacific Plate

103 mm/yr

Arafura Sea

Ne w

Tre nch
n
i
a
Brit

Santa Cruz Islands

98 mm/yr

76 mm/yr

Timor Sea

600 + (40 km intervals)

Papua New Guinea

ugh
o
r
T
or

0 - 120 (20 km intervals)

400 - 560 (40 km intervals)

106 mm/yr

Lesser Sunda Islands

Depth

160 - 360 (40 km intervals)

Flores Sea
Java

Slab Contours

10S

North

Coral Sea Basin

New

90 mm/yr

Hebr
ides
c
Tren

Australia Plate
Australia

Coral Sea

82 mm/yr
20S

20S
0
120E

250

500

Loyalty Islands

1,000
Kilometers
140E

160E