TY - JOUR
T1 - Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of west Sumatra
AU - Sieh, Kerry
AU - Natawidjaja, Danny H.
AU - Meltzner, Aron J.
AU - Shen, Chuan Chou
AU - Cheng, Hai
AU - Li, Kuei Shu
AU - Suwargadi, Bambang W.
AU - Galetzka, John
AU - Philibosian, Belle
AU - Edwards, R. Lawrence
PY - 2008/12/12
Y1 - 2008/12/12
N2 - Records of relative sea-level change extracted from corals of the Mentawai islands, Sumatra, imply that this 700-kilometer-long section of the Sunda megathrust has generated broadly similar sequences of great earthquakes about every two centuries for at least the past 700 years. The moment magnitude 8.4 earthquake of September 2007 represents the first in a series of large partial failures of the Mentawai section that will probably be completed within the next several decades.
AB - Records of relative sea-level change extracted from corals of the Mentawai islands, Sumatra, imply that this 700-kilometer-long section of the Sunda megathrust has generated broadly similar sequences of great earthquakes about every two centuries for at least the past 700 years. The moment magnitude 8.4 earthquake of September 2007 represents the first in a series of large partial failures of the Mentawai section that will probably be completed within the next several decades.
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U2 - 10.1126/science.1163589
DO - 10.1126/science.1163589
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:58149215577
SN - 0036-8075
VL - 322
SP - 1674
EP - 1678
JO - Science
JF - Science
IS - 5908
ER -