The Makran Subduction Zone is the primary seismic/tsunami hazard of northwestern Indian Ocean, but little known its on-shore seismic structure. We derived a shear wave velocity model extending to 100 km depth beneath ∼400 km-long profile oriented parallel convergence vector Arabian Sea Plate. Receiver function/surface analysis shows that average structure in coastal region comprises ∼22–28 km-t...

SUMMARY Makran subduction zone is very active with ∼38 mm yr−1 convergence rate and has experienced great earthquakes in the past. The latest earthquake of 1945 Mw 8.1 event also triggered a large tsunami led to ∼4000 casualties. However, due incomplete historical seismicity records poor modern instrumentation, mechanism, co-seismic slip characteristics remain unclear. On 2017 February 17, an 6...

in western coast of gujarat destructive tsunamis have been generated from large earthquakes along the makran coast, chagos ridge and kutch region in the past. although the historical record is incomplete, it is believed that such tsunamis were destructive on the coasts of india, pakistan, iran, oman and sri lanka and possibly had significant effects on islands. the most significant tsunamigenic...

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