Unrushed megathrusts
In: Nature Geoscience. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 1752-0894; e-ISSN 1752-0908, more
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Corals reveal that part of the plate-boundary fault near Sumatra slipped slowly and quietly for three decades before a large earthquake in 1868. The exceptional duration of this slip event has implications for interpreting deformation to assess seismic hazard. |
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