Present-day kinematics of the Sundaland plate
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Chien Zheng Yong
,
Paul H. Denys
and
Christopher F. Pearson
Abstract
Great earthquakes (≥M8.0) often cause widespread postseismic decay in areas well beyond any recognised plate boundaries. The Mw8.6 and 8.2 northern Sumatra doublet earthquakes occurred on 11 April 2012, near the intersection of the Indian, Australian and Sundaland plate, have caused an extensive coseismic offset and postseismic decay over the region. In this study, the long-term GPS time-series (1999–2014) suggests that the postseismic decay associated with the doublet earthquakes have had a significant effect on the eastern boundary of the Sundaland plate up to the western region of Peninsular Malaysia. Before the 2004 Mw9.1 Aceh and 2005 Mw8.6 Nias earthquakes, the average velocity of continuous GPS sites in Peninsular Malaysia is moving southeastward at
Funding statement: This work is financially supported by the University of Otago Doctoral Scholarship.
Acknowledgment
The authors would like to thank International GNSS Services (IGS), Center for Orbit Determination in Europe (CODE), Badan Informasi Geospasial (BIG), Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI), National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA), Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Centre (SOPAC), California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) for maintaining and making the valuable GNSS data and processing parameters available. Special thanks to Department of Surveying & Mapping Malaysia (DSSM) for providing permanent GPS data from Malaysia under the copyright license No. JUPEM.BPK.18/4/16.10 (151) and JUPEM.BP.07.01.14 (63). This paper also benefited from a review by Sigrun Hreinsdóttir. Figures were generated using Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) software [21].
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