The 25 October 2010 Mentawai tsunami earthquake (Mw 7.8) and the tsunami hazard presented by shallow megathrust ruptures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lay, T ^a   Ammon, C J ^b   Kanamori, H ^c   Yamazaki, Y ^d   Cheung, K F ^d   Hutko, A R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Data Management Center Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TSUNAMIS;

ENERGY RELEASE; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SEISMIC MOMENT; SOURCE REGION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TSUNAMI GENERATION; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TSUNAMI RUN UP;

EARTHQUAKES;

COASTAL ZONE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SLIP; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THRUST; TSUNAMI; VELOCITY;

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

EID: 79952925410     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046552     Document Type: Article

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