The 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai earthquake : very shallow source of a rare tsunami earthquake determined from tsunami field survey and near-field GPS data

• Main Authors: Huang, Zhenhua, Qiu, Qiang, Banerjee, Paramesh, Elosegui, Pedro, Pranantyo, Ignatius Ryan, Li, Linlin, Skanavis, Vassilis, Sieh, Kerry, Hill, Emma M., Borrero, José C., Natawidjaja, Danny H., Fritz, Hermann M., Suwargadi, Bambang W., Macpherson, Kenneth A., Synolakis, Costas E.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95223; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8666
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Mw 7.8 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia, earthquake was a “tsunami earthquake,” a rare type of earthquake that generates a tsunami much larger than expected based on the seismicmagnitude. It produced a locally devastating tsunami, with runup commonly in excess...