Published December 12, 2008
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Journal Article
Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra
Abstract
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.
Additional Information
© 2009 American Association for the Advancement of Science. 22 July 2008; accepted 8 October 2008. This work has been supported by NSF grants EAR-9628301, 9804732, 9903301, 0208508, 0530899, 0538333, and 0809223 (to K.S.) and EAR-0207686 and 0537973 (to R.L.E.); by National Science Council grants 94-2116-M002-012 and 95&96-2752-M002-012-PAE (to C.-C.S.); by LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science) and RUTI (International Joint Research Program of the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology); and by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This is Caltech Tectonics Observatory contribution number 86 and Earth Observatory of Singapore contribution number 1.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 14526
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1163589
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20090708-145717286
- EAR-9628301
- NSF
- EAR-9804732
- NSF
- EAR-9903301
- NSF
- EAR-0208508
- NSF
- EAR-0530899
- NSF
- EAR-0538333
- NSF
- EAR-0809223
- NSF
- EAR-0207686
- NSF
- EAR-0537973
- NSF
- 94-2116-M002-012
- National Science Council
- 95&96-2752-M002-012-PAE
- National Science Council
- LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Science)
- RUTI (International Joint Research Program of the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology)
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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2009-07-09Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-08Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Caltech groups
- Caltech Tectonics Observatory, Caltech Tectonics Observatory. Sumatran Plate Boundary
- Other Numbering System Name
- Earth Observatory of Singapore
- Other Numbering System Identifier
- 1