Plate-boundary deformation associated with the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7080, 2006, Pages 46-51

  Subarya, Cecep ^a   Chlieh, Mohamed ^b   Prawirodirdjo, Linette ^c   Avouac, Jean Philippe ^b   Bock, Yehuda ^c   Sieh, Kerry ^b   Meltzner, Aron J ^b   Natawidjaja, Danny H ^d   McCaffrey, Robert ^e  

^a National Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping   (Indonesia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

^e Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

SIMEULUE ISLAND; SUNDA SUBDUCTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; PLATE BOUNDARY;

CORAL REEF; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIA; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33644768018     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04522     Document Type: Review

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