The Vrancea seismic zone and its analogue in the Banda Arc, eastern Indonesia

The Banda/Australia collision is now almost complete and the activity in the WBZ proper can be expected to decrease. Damar Zone activity, on the other hand, may persist for a much longer period, migrating towards the foreland as the detaching layer separates from the remainder of the subducted lithosphere. In a few million years the seismicity of the Banda region could well resemble the present day seismicity of the Carpathian orogen.