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Nature Geoscience 2, 87 - 88 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ngeo422
Subject Categories: Seismology | Structural geology, tectonics and geodynamics
Earthquakes: Imperfect dominoes
Roland Bürgmann1
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Roland Bürgmann is at the Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720–4767, USA.
e-mail: burgmann@seismo.berkeley.edu
Abstract
Within just three years, a 2,000-km stretch of the plate boundary tracing the Indonesian archipelago slipped in four earthquakes. Studies of past and present seismic activity in the region show a complex, but organized pattern of earthquake supercycles, the latest of which has not been completed.
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