The 25 October 2010 Mentawai tsunami earthquake, from real-time discriminants, finite-fault rupture, and tsunami excitation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Newman, Andrew V ^a   Hayes, Gavin ^b,c   Wei, Yong ^c,d   Convers, Jaime ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Synergetics Incorporated ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT RUPTURES; FINITE FAULT MODELING; INDONESIA; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; NEAR-REAL TIME; REAL-TIME SOLUTIONS; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; TSUNAMI RUN UP; TSUNAMI WAVES; WAVE HEIGHTS;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MORTALITY; REAL TIME; SLIP; TRENCH; TSUNAMI; WAVE HEIGHT;

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

EID: 79952433580     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046498     Document Type: Article

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