The Mentawai Forearc Sliver(MFS)is characterized by oblique deformation formed as slip partitioned between normal and parallel trench plate convergence.The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to2012 along the adjacen...The Mentawai Forearc Sliver(MFS)is characterized by oblique deformation formed as slip partitioned between normal and parallel trench plate convergence.The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to2012 along the adjacent Sunda trench left a large unbroken segment known as the Mentawai Seismic Gap.Here,we adopted continuous Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)observation data to identify the present regional crustal deformation using geodetic strain rates.The principal strain rate,dilatation rate,and maximum shear strain rate are about 0.13 microstrain/yr,0.2 microstrain/yr,and 0.1 microstrain/yr,respectively,with the range of its uncertainties between 0.01 and 0.04 microstrain/yr.The dilatation and maximum shear strain rates reveal the spatial coverage of strike-slip duplex and backthrust tectonics along the Mentawai Forearc Sliver.展开更多
基金supported by Universitas Gadjah Mada through the 2022 Indonesian Collaborative Research Program.
文摘The Mentawai Forearc Sliver(MFS)is characterized by oblique deformation formed as slip partitioned between normal and parallel trench plate convergence.The surge of great earthquakes from 2004 to2012 along the adjacent Sunda trench left a large unbroken segment known as the Mentawai Seismic Gap.Here,we adopted continuous Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)observation data to identify the present regional crustal deformation using geodetic strain rates.The principal strain rate,dilatation rate,and maximum shear strain rate are about 0.13 microstrain/yr,0.2 microstrain/yr,and 0.1 microstrain/yr,respectively,with the range of its uncertainties between 0.01 and 0.04 microstrain/yr.The dilatation and maximum shear strain rates reveal the spatial coverage of strike-slip duplex and backthrust tectonics along the Mentawai Forearc Sliver.
