Earthquake Supercycles Inferred from Sea-Level Changes Recorded in the Corals of West Sumatra

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...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2008-12, Vol.322 (5908), p.1674-1678
Main Authors: Sieh, Kerry, Natawidjaja, Danny H, Meltzner, Aron J, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Cheng, Hai, Li, Kuei-Shu, Suwargadi, Bambang W, Galetzka, John, Philibosian, Belle, Edwards, R. Lawrence
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Coral reefs
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Earthquakes, seismology
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Geophysics
Internal geophysics
Marine
Observational research
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Plate tectonics
Sea level
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Tectonics
Topographical elevation
Tsunamis
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Earth, ocean, space
Earthquakes
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Internal geophysics
Marine
Observational research
Observatories
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Tectonics
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