The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 351-352, Issue , 2012, Pages 247-257

  Duputel, Zacharie ^a   Kanamori, Hiroo ^a   Tsai, Victor C ^a   Rivera, Luis ^b   Meng, Lingsen ^a   Ampuero, Jean Paul ^a   Stock, Joann M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

2012 Sumatra earthquake sequence; Earthquake source observations; Intraplate earthquakes; Seismicity and tectonics; Surface waves and free oscillations

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FREE OSCILLATION; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; INTRAPLATE EARTHQUAKES; LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION; MAINSHOCK; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; RATE FUNCTIONS; RIGID PLATE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE MODELS; STRIKE-SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SUB-EVENTS; SUMATRA; TWO-POINT;

SEPARATION; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; WATER WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84865572837     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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