RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004
JF Science
JO Science
FD American Association for the Advancement of Science
SP 1127
OP 1133
DO 10.1126/science.1112250
VO 308
IS 5725
A1 Lay, Thorne
A1 Kanamori, Hiroo
A1 Ammon, Charles J.
A1 Nettles, Meredith
A1 Ward, Steven N.
A1 Aster, Richard C.
A1 Beck, Susan L.
A1 Bilek, Susan L.
A1 Brudzinski, Michael R.
A1 Butler, Rhett
A1 DeShon, Heather R.
A1 Ekström, Göran
A1 Satake, Kenji
A1 Sipkin, Stuart
YR 2005
UL http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5725/1127.abstract
AB The two largest earthquakes of the past 40 years ruptured a 1600-kilometer-long portion of the fault boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern Eurasian plates on 26 December 2004 [seismic moment magnitude (Mw) = 9.1 to 9.3] and 28 March 2005 (Mw = 8.6). The first event generated a tsunami that caused more than 283,000 deaths. Fault slip of up to 15 meters occurred near Banda Aceh, Sumatra, but to the north, along the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, rapid slip was much smaller. Tsunami and geodetic observations indicate that additional slow slip occurred in the north over a time scale of 50 minutes or longer.