Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of west Sumatra

Kerry Sieh; Danny H. Natawidjaja; Aron J. Meltzner; Chuan Chou Shen; Hai Cheng; Kuei Shu Li; Bambang W. Suwargadi; John Galetzka; Belle Philibosian; R. Lawrence Edwards

doi:10.1126/science.1163589

Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of west Sumatra

Kerry Sieh, Danny H. Natawidjaja, Aron J. Meltzner, Chuan Chou Shen, Hai Cheng, Kuei Shu Li, Bambang W. Suwargadi, John Galetzka, Belle Philibosian, R. Lawrence Edwards

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1674-1678
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science
Volume	322
Issue number	5908
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1163589
State	Published - Dec 12 2008

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Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of west Sumatra

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