eprintid: 1418 rev_number: 12 eprint_status: archive userid: 2 dir: disk0/00/00/14/18 datestamp: 2015-02-25 08:18:14 lastmod: 2017-02-08 12:21:38 status_changed: 2015-04-27 12:10:52 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: McCloskey, John creators_name: Nalbant, Suleyman creators_name: Steacy, Sandy creators_id: creators_id: ss.nalbant@ulster.ac.uk creators_id: corp_creators: Geophysics Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland corp_creators: Geophysics Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland corp_creators: Geophysics Research Group, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Ireland title: Indonesian earthquake: Earthquake risk from co-seismic stress ispublished: pub subjects: SS divisions: EPOS-P full_text_status: none abstract: Last year's Indonesian earthquake has increased seismic hazard in the region. Following the massive loss of life caused by the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake in Indonesia and its tsunami, the possibility of a triggered earthquake on the contiguous Sunda trench subduction zone is a real concern. We have calculated the distributions of co-seismic stress on this zone, as well as on the neighbouring, vertical strike–slip Sumatra fault, and find an increase in stress on both structures that significantly boosts the already considerable earthquake hazard posed by them. In particular, the increased potential for a large subduction-zone event in this region, with the concomitant risk of another tsunami, makes the need for a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean all the more urgent. date: 2005-03-16 date_type: published publication: Nature volume: 434 number: 7031 publisher: Nature Publishing Group pagerange: 291-291 id_number: doi:10.1038/434291a refereed: TRUE issn: 0028-0836 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/434291a access_IS-EPOS: limited owner: Publisher citation: McCloskey, John and Nalbant, Suleyman and Steacy, Sandy (2005) Indonesian earthquake: Earthquake risk from co-seismic stress. Nature, 434 (7031). p. 291. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/434291a