Earthquake in a maze: Compressional rupture branching during the 2012 Mw 8.6 Sumatra earthquake

Science

Volumn 337, Issue 6095, 2012, Pages 724-726

  Meng, L ^a   Ampuero, J P ^a   Stock, J ^a   Duputel, Z ^a   Luo, Y ^a   Tsai, V C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; EARTHQUAKE; IMAGING; INDONESIA; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LITHOSPHERE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES; WHARTON BASIN;

EID: 84864833599     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1224030     Document Type: Article

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