The 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake: Evidence of westward sequential seismic ruptures associated to the reactivation of a N-S ocean fabric

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Satriano, Claudio ^a   Kiraly, Eszter ^a   Bernard, Pascal ^a   Vilotte, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS;

BACK PROJECTION; COMBINED ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; DYNAMIC TRIGGERING; ENERGY RELEASE; GLOBAL SOURCES; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LOVE WAVE; MAINSHOCK; P-WAVES; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEA FLOOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; STRIKE-SLIP EVENTS; SUMATRA; TELESEISMIC; TRANSIENT SURFACE WAVE;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; AUSTRALIAN PLATE; AZIMUTH; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INDIAN PLATE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LOVE WAVE; P-WAVE; PERTURBATION; SEAFLOOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SURFACE WAVE; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; NINETYEAST RIDGE; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84864721139     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052387     Document Type: Article

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