The Makran Subduction Zone of Pakistan and Iran and Locations of Recorded Earthquakes (IMAGE)

National Oceanography Centre, UK

The Makran Subduction Zone of Pakistan and Iran and Locations of Recorded Earthquakes

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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 7.3 earthquake). The profile for the thermal modelling of this study is the N-S trending black line, with distance given along the profile from the shallowest part of the subduction zone in the south (0 kilometers) to the most northern potential earthquake rupture extent (350 kilometers).

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University of Southampton Ocean and Earth Science

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