Lessons learned from the 2004 sumatra-andaman megathrust rupture

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue , 2010, Pages 103-131

  Shearer, Peter ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite slip inversion; Subduction earthquakes; Tsunami warning

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL PROCESSING; COSEISMIC SLIPS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GRAVITY CHANGES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH QUALITY; INVERSION METHODS; LESSONS LEARNED; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOURCE INVERSION; SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES; SUMATRA; SUMATRA-ANDAMAN EARTHQUAKE; TSUNAMI WARNING; WAVE IMAGING;

GRAVITATION; SEISMIC WAVES; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT GEOMETRY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC WAVE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; THRUST; TSUNAMI; WARNING SYSTEM;

EID: 77953655657     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152537     Document Type: Article

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