Why do Indonesia experience frequent earthquakes? Here are the causes and explanations for megathrust faults.

Indonesia has experienced a series of recent earthquakes, drawing renewed public and scientific attention to the country's high seismic activity. In response to these events, authorities and experts have provided explanations focusing on the geological phenomenon known as megathrust zones.

These explanations detail the underlying tectonic causes that make various regions across the Indonesian archipelago frequently susceptible to significant seismic shaking.