The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004

Thorne Lay; Hiroo Kanamori; Charles J. Ammon; Meredith Nettles; Steven N. Ward; Richard C. Aster; Susan L. Beck; Susan L. Bilek; Michael R. Brudzinski; Rhett Butler; Heather R. DeShon; Göran Ekström; Kenji Satake; Stuart Sipkin

doi:10.1126/science.1112250

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The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004

Thorne Lay1,2,*,
Hiroo Kanamori3,
Charles J. Ammon4,
Meredith Nettles5,
Steven N. Ward2,
Richard C. Aster6,
Susan L. Beck7,
Susan L. Bilek6,
Michael R. Brudzinski8,9,
Rhett Butler10,
Heather R. DeShon8,
Göran Ekström5,
Kenji Satake11,
Stuart Sipkin12

¹ Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
² Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
³ Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
⁴ Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 440 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
⁵ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
⁶ Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.
⁷ Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
⁸ Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1215 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA.
⁹ Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
¹⁰ IRIS Consortium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20005, USA.
¹¹ Geological Survey of Japan, Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology, Site C7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8567, Japan.
¹² National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO 80401, USA.

↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: thorne{at}pmc.ucsc.edu

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Science 20 May 2005:
Vol. 308, Issue 5725, pp. 1127-1133
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112250

Thorne Lay

1 Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

2 Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

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For correspondence: thorne@pmc.ucsc.edu

Hiroo Kanamori

3 Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

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Charles J. Ammon

4 Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 440 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

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Meredith Nettles

5 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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Steven N. Ward

2 Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.

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Richard C. Aster

6 Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.

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Susan L. Beck

7 Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

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Susan L. Bilek

6 Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.

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Michael R. Brudzinski

8 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1215 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA.

9 Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.

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Rhett Butler

10 IRIS Consortium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20005, USA.

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Heather R. DeShon

8 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1215 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA.

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Göran Ekström

5 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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Kenji Satake

11 Geological Survey of Japan, Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology, Site C7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8567, Japan.

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Stuart Sipkin

12 National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO 80401, USA.

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