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The September 2009 Padang earthquake

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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.

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Figure 1: The Sumatran megathrust.

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We thank the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) for funding, and the NERC Geophysical Equipment Facility, BMG, GEOFON and IRIS for seismic equipment and data.

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  1. Environmental Sciences Research Institute, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine, BT52 1SA, Northern Ireland

    John McCloskey & Suleyman S. Nalbant

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ, UK

    Dietrich Lange & Frederik Tilmann

  3. School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK

    Andrew F. Bell

  4. Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Bandung, 40135, Indonesia

    Danny Hilman Natawidjaja

  5. Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GP, UK

    Andreas Rietbrock

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