Earthquake supercycles on the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust in the seventeenth century and earlier

• Main Authors: Philibosian, Belle, Sieh, Kerry, Avouac, Jean-Philippe, Natawidjaja, Danny H., Chiang, Hong-Wei, Wu, Chung-Che, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Daryono, Mudrik R., Perfettini, Hugo, Suwargadi, Bambang W., Lu, Yanbin, Wang, Xianfeng
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Earthquake cycles; Sunda megathrust
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80791; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42234
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over at least the past millennium, the Mentawai segment of the Sunda megathrust has failed in sequences of closely timed events rather than in single end-to-end ruptures—each the culmination of an earthquake “supercycle.” Here we synthesize the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century coral microatoll rec...