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2010 Mentawai Islands

Details of this event can be found in the paper:

  • Hill, E, Borrero, J., Huang, Z. et al. (2012). The 2010 Mw 7.8 Mentawai earthquake: Very shallow source of a rare tsunami earthquake determined from tsunami field survey and near-field GPS. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol 117(B6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JB009159

A gallery of images from the field survey.

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