Insight into the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake from GPS measurements in southeast Asia

• Main Authors: Vigny, C, Simons, W J F, Abu, S, Bamphenyu, Ronnachai, Satirapod, Chalemchorn, Choosakul, Nithiwatthn, Subarya, C, Socquet, A, Omar, Kamaludin, Abidin, H Z, Ambrosius, B. A. C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2005
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1273/1/nature03937.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/1273/; http://www.nature.com/nature
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Data collected at ,60 Global Positioning System (GPS) sites in southeast Asia show the crustal deformation caused by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake at an unprecedented large scale. Small but significant co-seismic jumps are clearly detected more than 3,000 km from the earthquake e...