The 25 October 2010 Mentawai tsunami earthquake (Mw 7.8) and the tsunami hazard presented by shallow megathrust ruptures

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Mar 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011georl..3806302l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 38, Issue 6, CiteID L06302

Physics

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Seismology: Earthquake Source Observations (1240), Seismology: Seismicity And Tectonics (1207, 1217, 1240, 1242), Seismology: Subduction Zones (1207, 1219, 1240), Tectonophysics: Dynamics And Mechanics Of Faulting (8004), Tectonophysics: Earth'S Interior: Composition And State (1212, 7207, 7208, 8105)

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The 25 October 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia earthquake (Mw 7.8) ruptured the shallow portion of the subduction zone seaward of the Mentawai islands, off-shore of Sumatra, generating 3 to 9 m tsunami run-up along southwestern coasts of the Pagai Islands that took at least 431 lives. Analyses of teleseismic P, SH and Rayleigh waves for finite-fault source rupture characteristics indicate ˜90 s rupture duration with a low rupture velocity of ˜1.5 km/s on the 10° dipping megathrust, with total slip of 2-4 m over an ˜100 km long source region. The seismic moment-scaled energy release is 1.4 × 10-6, lower than 2.4 × 10-6 found for the 17 July 2006 Java tsunami earthquake (Mw 7.8). The Mentawai event ruptured up-dip of the slip region of the 12 September 2007 Kepulauan earthquake (Mw 7.9), and together with the 4 January 1907 (M 7.6) tsunami earthquake located seaward of Simeulue Island to the northwest along the arc, demonstrates the significant tsunami generation potential for shallow megathrust ruptures in regions up-dip of great underthrusting events in Indonesia and elsewhere.

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