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...

The Makran region, which borders southern Iran and Pakistan along the Gulf of Oman, has experienced multiple tsunamis in last century, with some being triggered by submarine landslides. However, role played landslides been largely neglected tsunami hazard assessments western Makran. In present study, four different landslide scenarios volumes 10–40 km3 are simulated on 25 locations Makran, resu...

Makran subduction zone, along the southern coasts of Iran and Pakistan, has a wide potential seismogenic zone may be capable generating large magnitude (M ~ 9) tsunamigenic earthquakes. Considering ambiguities exist in source characterization for megathrusts like Makran, where detailed geologic, seismic, geodetic data are insufficient, probabilistic tsunami hazard analysis (PTHA) is most preval...