April 2012 intra-oceanic seismicity off Sumatra boosted by the Banda-Aceh megathrust

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7419, 2012, Pages 240-244

  Delescluse, Matthias ^a   Chamot Rooke, Nicolas ^a   Cattin, Rodolphe ^b   Fleitout, Luce ^a   Trubienko, Olga ^a   Vigny, Christophe ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHENOSPHERE; COULOMB CRITERION; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMICITY; SLAB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC PLATE;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; FOSSIL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AUSTRALIA; GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; SUMATRA; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84867295217     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11520     Document Type: Article

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