The 2015 Mw 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake: an infrequent fault rupture within the Crocker fault system of East Malaysia

• Main Authors: Wang, Yu, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Lindsey, Eric Ostrom, Tongkul, Felix, Tapponnier, Paul, Bradley, Kyle, Chan, Chung-Han, Hill, Emma Mary, Sieh, Kerry
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: 2015 Sabah earthquake; Mt. Kinabalu
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86326; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/43978
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Mw 6.0 Mt. Kinabalu earthquake of 2015 was a complete (and deadly) surprise, because it occurred well away from the nearest plate boundary in a region of very low historical seismicity. Our seismological, space geodetic, geomorphological, and field investigations show that the earthquake resulte...