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Published December 12, 2008 | Version public
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Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra

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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.

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© 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.

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Eprint ID
14526
DOI
10.1126/science.1163589
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CaltechAUTHORS:20090708-145717286

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10.1126/science.1163589 (DOI)

Funding

NSF
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
National Science Council
94-2116-M002-012
National Science Council
95&96-2752-M002-012-PAE
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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2009-07-09
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2021-11-08
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Caltech Tectonics Observatory, Caltech Tectonics Observatory. Sumatran Plate Boundary
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Earth Observatory of Singapore
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