Afterslip following the 2007 Mw 8.4 Bengkulu earthquake in Sumatra loaded the 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai tsunami earthquake rupture zone

• Main Authors: Tsang, Louisa Lok Hang, Hill, Emma Mary, Barbot, Sylvain, Qiu, Qiang, Feng, Lujia, Hermawan, Iwan, Banerjee, Paramesh, Natawidjaja, Danny H.
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Afterslip; Postseismic Deformation; DRNTU::Science::Geology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88909; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/46986
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The 12 September 2007 Mw 8.4 Bengkulu earthquake in Sumatra marked the first in a modern series of large earthquakes along the Mentawai section of the Sunda megathrust. Understanding the spatial distribution of coseismic slip and ensuing afterslip is important for assessing seismic hazard in neighbo...