Abstract
On 30 September 2009, the city of Padang in Indonesia was rocked by an earthquake with a moment magnitude of Mw = 7.6. Despite its size, the earthquake did not rupture the Sunda megathrust and did not significantly relax the 200 years of accumulated stress on the Mentawai segment. The megathrust strain-energy budget remains substantially unchanged and the threat of a great, Mw > 8.5, tsunamigenic earthquake on the Mentawai patch is unabated.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 70-71 |
Journal | Nature Geoscience |
Volume | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2010 |