OSCILLATIONS AFTER THE SUMATRA-ANDAMAN MEGATHRUST DEC. 26, 2004

Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake

Jeffrey Park1, Teh-Ru Alex Song2, Jeroen Tromp2, Emile Okal3, Seth Stein3, Genevieve Roult4, Eric Clevede4, Gabi Laske5, Hiroo Kanamori2, Peter Davis5, Jon Berger5, Carla Braitenberg6, Michel Van Camp7, Xiang'e Lei8, Heping Sun8, Houze Xu8, Severine Rosat9

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Article Information

vol. 308 no. 5725 1139-1144

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1112305

PubMed:

15905394

Published By:

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Print ISSN:

0036-8075

Online ISSN:

1095-9203

History:

Received for publication March 15, 2005

Accepted for publication April 29, 2005

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Author Information

Jeffrey Park1, Teh-Ru Alex Song2, Jeroen Tromp2, Emile Okal3, Seth Stein3, Genevieve Roult4, Eric Clevede4, Gabi Laske5, Hiroo Kanamori2, Peter Davis5, Jon Berger5, Carla Braitenberg6, Michel Van Camp7, Xiang'e Lei8, Heping Sun8, Houze Xu8, Severine Rosat9

1 Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Post Office Box 208109, New Haven, CT 06520–8109, USA.

2 Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 252–21, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

3 Department of Geological Sciences, 1850 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208–2150, USA.

4 Departement de Sismologie, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France.

5 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093–0225, USA.

6 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Universita' di Trieste, Via Weiss 1, 34100 Trieste, Italy.

7 Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue Circulaire 3, B–1180 Bruxelles, Belgium.

8 Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 174 Xudong Road, Wuhan 430077, China.

9 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2–12 Hoshigaoka, Mizusawa, Iwate 023–0861, Japan.

Science  20 May 2005:

Vol. 308, Issue 5725, pp. 1139-1144

DOI: 10.1126/science.1112305

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Scientists said the quake was a "megathrust" - the largest of earthquakes - similar to the Indian Ocean temblor in 2004 that generated a deadly tsunami.

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