Permanent upper plate deformation in western Myanmar during the great 1762 earthquake : implications for neotectonic behavior of the northern Sunda megathrust

• Main Authors: Shyu, J. Bruce H., Wang, Yu, Sieh, Kerry, Chiang, Hong-Wei, Wang, Chung-Che, Aung, Thura, Lin, Yu-nung Nina, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Min, Soe, Than, Oo, Lin, Kyaw Kyaw, Tun, Soe Thura
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101514; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/18672
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 1762 Arakan earthquake resulted from rupture of the northern Sunda megathrust and is one of those rare preinstrumental earthquakes for which early historical accounts document ground deformations. In order to obtain more comprehensive and detailed measurements of coseismic uplift, we conducte...