title: Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of West Sumatra.
abstract: Records of relative sea-level change extracted from corals of the Mentawai islands, Sumatra, imply that this 700-kilometer-long section of the Sunda megathrust has generated broadly similar sequences of great earthquakes about every two centuries for at least the past 700 years. The moment magnitude 8.4 earthquake of September 2007 represents the first in a series of large partial failures of the Mentawai section that will probably be completed within the next several decades.
authors.affiliation: Tectonics Observatory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. sieh@ntu.edu.sg
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sieh
authors.forename: Danny H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Natawidjaja
authors.forename: Aron J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Meltzner
authors.forename: Chuan-Chou
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Hai
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Kuei-Shu
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Bambang W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Suwargadi
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Galetzka
authors.forename: Belle
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Philibosian
authors.forename: R Lawrence
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Edwards