Seismic evidence for broken oceanic crust in the 2004 Sumatra earthquake epicentral region

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 1, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 777-781

  Singh, Satish C ^a   Carton, Hélène ^a   Tapponnier, Paul ^a   Hananto, Nugroho D ^a   Chauhan, Ajay P S ^a   Hartoyo, Djoko ^b   Bayly, Martin ^c   Moeljopranoto, Soelistijani ^c   Bunting, Tim ^c   Christie, Phil ^d   Lubis, Hasbi ^e   Martin, James ^e  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

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

^c WESTERNGECO   (United States)

^d SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e WESTERNGECO   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 65349170112     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo336     Document Type: Article

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