UTIG RESEARCH PROJECTS ARCHIVE
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Principal Investigators: |
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Kerry Sieh |
California Institute of Technology |
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R. Lawrence Edwards |
University of Minnesota |
Funding Agency: NSF, award # 9408506
Abstract:
This research is to conduct investigations of the two great plate-boundary faults of Sumatra. Though geographically restricted, our three-year investigation will address fundamental questions concerning both the repeatability of great earthquakes and the kinematics of obliquely convergent plate boundaries. This work could also lead to a firmer basis for seismic hazard evaluation, not just in Sumatra, but in other seismically vulnerable regions as well.