Tracking the rupture of the Mw = 9.3 Sumatra earthquake over 1,150 km at teleseismic distance

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7044, 2005, Pages 937-939

  Krüger, Frank ^a   Ohrnberger, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

GERMAN REGIONAL SEISMIC NETWORK (GRSM); SEISMIC MOMENTS; TSUNAMI-GENERATING EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE;

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ENERGY; INDIAN OCEAN; INDONESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; WORLD;

EID: 21244473231     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03696     Document Type: Article

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