Evidence of pervasive trans-tensional deformation in the northwestern Wharton Basin in the 2012 earthquakes rupture area

• Main Authors: Hananto, Nugroho, Boudarine, Asmoune, Carton, Hélène, Singh, Satish C., Avianto, Praditya, Dyment, Jérôme, Qin, Yanfang, Ghosal, Dibakar, Zuraida, Rina, Tapponnier, Paul E., Deplus, Christine, Sieh, Kerry
• Other Authors: Earth Observatory of Singapore
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes; Diffuse Deformation; The 2012 Indian Ocean Earthquake
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88162; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50451
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Wharton Basin in the Indian Ocean is one of the most extensively deforming ocean basins, as confirmed by the occurrence of several very large earthquakes starting from January 12, 2012 with Mw 7.2 followed by the great earthquakes of April 11, 2012 with Mw 8.6 and Mw 8.2. Although the Mw 7.2 and...