Accretion, mass wasting, and partitioned strain over the 26 Dec 2004 Mw9.2 rupture offshore Aceh, northern Sumatra

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 263, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 16-31

  Seeber, Leonardo ^a   Mueller, Christian ^b   Fujiwara, Toshiya ^c   Arai, Kohsaku ^d   Soh, Wonn ^c   Djajadihardja, Yusuf S ^e   Cormier, Marie Helene ^f  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e AGENCY FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY BPPT   (Indonesia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

2004 Andaman Sumatra earthquake; subduction; Sunda arc; tsunami

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; MASS WASTING; PARTITIONED STRAIN; RUPTURE; SUBDUCTION;

BATHYMETRY; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; AFTERSHOCK; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; FOLDING; GRABEN; MASS WASTING; SEISMIC SURVEY; SLIP; STRAIN PARTITIONING; SUBDUCTION; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; ATJEH; EURASIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; INDONESIAN SEAS; MALAY ARCHIPELAGO; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SUMATRA; SUNDA ARC; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 35649012094     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.057     Document Type: Article

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