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Head of the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (
BMKG
) Teuku Faisal Fathani said there was a potential serious threat from
megathrust
which surrounds Indonesia.He said there are three megathrust zones in the country that have the potential to trigger major disasters.
“Our country is at the meeting point of three active plates in the world with 13 megathrust segments, some of which have not yet released their tectonic energy. This means that the potential for a large earthquake is still possible at any time,” said Faisal at the DPR RI Disaster Monitoring Team Meeting at the Parliament Complex, Senayan, Jakarta, Wednesday (5/11), according to the official BMKG website.
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Of the dozens of zones, said Faisal, there are three megathrust zones that have not experienced a large earthquake in hundreds of years.The three zones are the Mentawai-Siberut Megathrust, the Sunda Strait-Banten Megathrust, and the Sumba Megathrust.
He explained that the three megathrust zones are currently in the process of accumulating tectonic energy.He then warned that a large earthquake could happen at any time without prediction.
“It is strongly suspected that currently there is a process of accumulation of tectonic energy which could release a large earthquake at any time without being predicted,” he said, as reported by Detik.
Megathrust zones are areas where Earth’s tectonic plates meet at subduction zones or points where one plate slides under another plate, which is generally in the ocean.
Throughout history, megathrusts have caused some of the world’s largest and most destructive earthquakes and tsunamis.Some prominent examples include the Sunda Megathrust in Indonesia, the Peru-Chile Trench in South America, the Nankai Trench in Japan, and the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest of North America.
Megathrust has the potential to produce strong earthquakes and trigger devastating tsunamis.It is estimated that this zone can ‘break’ repeatedly with time lags of up to hundreds of years.
Furthermore, Faisal said that there were 850 earthquakes recorded by BMKG throughout 2025. This data emphasizes that the threat of earthquakes in Indonesia is very real.
“Furthermore, based on data, there have been 850 earthquakes that we can feel in 2025. This data shows that the threat of earthquakes in Indonesia is real and will always happen,” he concluded.
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