The 2016 Mw 6.5 Pidie Jaya, Aceh, North Sumatra, Earthquake : reactivation of an unidentified sinistral fault in a region of distributed deformation

• Main Authors: Muzli, Muzli, Umar, Muksin, Nugraha, Andri Dian, Bradley, Kyle Edward, Widiyantoro, Sri, Erbas, Kemal, Jousset, Philippe, Rohadi, Supriyanto, Nurdin, Irwandi, Wei, Shengji
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Earthquake; Pidie Jaya, Aceh, Sumatra; Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/104479; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49994
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

On 6 December 2016, an Mw 6.5 earthquake occurred in Pidie Jaya, Aceh, about 30 km to the north of the Sumatran fault (SF) that killed more than 100 people and destroyed ∼3000 buildings. Mainshock focal mechanism inversions using regional Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics of Indone...