Another potential source of destructive earthquakes and tsunami offshore of Sumatra

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wiseman, Kelly ^a   Banerjee, Paramesh ^b   Sieh, Kerry ^b   Bürgmann, Roland ^a   Natawidjaja, Danny H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INDONESIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCES   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; COASTAL COMMUNITIES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; GEODETIC DATA; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SUMATRA; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; VERTICAL DEFORMATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEODESY; SUGARS;

TSUNAMIS;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODETIC NETWORK; GPS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE 2004; THRUST; TSUNAMI;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 79957969675     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010620     Document Type: Article

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