Stress and seismicity changes on the Sunda megathrust preceding the 2007 Mw 8.4 earthquake

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 313-326

  Wiseman, Kelly ^a   Bürgmann, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Stress change models and Seismicity rate change maps

Indexed keywords

CLOSE-IN; COULOMB FAILURE STRESS; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STRESS CHANGE MODELS AND SEISMICITY RATE CHANGE MAPS; SUBDUCTION ZONES; SUMATRA; TIME AND SPACE;

RISK ASSESSMENT; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; NIAS EARTHQUAKE 2005; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; STRESS CHANGE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; THRUST FAULT;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; MENTAWAI ISLANDS; SIBERUT; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; WEST SUMATRA;

EID: 79251641705     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100063     Document Type: Article

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