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Eric J. Fielding, Anthony Sladen, Zhenhong Li, Jean-Philippe Avouac, Roland Bürgmann and Isabelle Ryder, Kinematic fault slip evolution source models of the 2008 M7.9 Wenchuan earthquake in China from SAR interferometry, GPS and teleseismic analysis and implications for Longmen Shan tectonics, Geophys. J. Int. (August, 2013) 194 (2): 1138-1166. doi: 10.1093/gji/ggt155 on-line

Duputel, Z., H. Kanamori, V. C. Tsai, L. Rivera, L. Meng and J.-P. Ampuero The 2012 Sumatra great earthquake sequence (submitted to EPSL) PDF

Meng, L., J.-P. Ampuero, J. Stock, Z. Duputel, Y. Luo and V. C. Tsai An earthquake in a maze: compressional rupture branching in a weakened oceanic lithosphere during the April 11 2012 M8.6 Sumatra earthquake (submitted to Science) PDF available upon request

Meng, L., J.-P. Ampuero, Y. Luo, W. Wu and S. Ni (2012) Mitigating Artifacts in Back-Projection Source Imaging with Implications on Frequency-Dependent Properties of the Tohoku-Oki Earthquake (accepted for publication in Earth, Planets and Space, special issue The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake) PDF

Meng, L., J.-P. Ampuero, A. Sladen and H. Rendon (2012) High-resolution back-projection at regional distance: application to the Haiti M7.0 earthquake and comparisons with finite source studies J. Geophys. Res., 117, B04313 PDF | Supplementary material | on-line

Wei, S., Graves, R., Helmberger, D., Avouac, J.P., Jiang, J. (2012), Sources of shaking and flooding during the Tohoku-Oki earthquake: A mixture of rupture styles Earth and Planetary Science Letters 333–334, 91–100 PDF

Meng, L., A. Inbal and J.-P. Ampuero (2011) A window into the complexity of the dynamic rupture of the 2011 Mw 9 Tohoku-Oki earthquake Geophys. Res. Let., 38, L00G07, doi:10.1029/2011GL048118 on-line | PDF | Auxiliary material | Animation S1 | Animation S2

Simons, M., S. E. Minson, A. Sladen, F. Ortega, J. Jiang, S. E. Owen, L. Meng, J.-P. Ampuero, S. Wei, R. Chu, D. V. Helmberger, H. Kanamori, E. Hetland, A. W. Moore, and F. H. Webb (2011) The 2011 magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake: mosaicking the megathrust from seconds to centuries Science, 332, 1421-1425, doi:10.1126/science.1206731 on-line

Copley, A., Avouac, J.P., Hollingsworth, J., Leprince, S. (2011) The 2001 Mw 7.6 Bhuj earthquake, low fault friction, and the crustal support of plate driving forces in India, Journal of Geophysical Research VOL. 116, B08405, doi:10.1029/2010JB008137 PDF

Wei, S., Fielding, E., Leprince, S., Sladen, A., Avouac, J.P., Helmberger, D., Hauksson, E., Chu, R., Simons, M., Hudnut, K., Herring, T., Briggs, R. (2011) Superficial simplicity of the 2010 El Mayor - Cucapah earthquake of Baja California in Mexico, Nature Geoscience 4, 615–618 (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1213 PDF

Avouac, J.-P. (2011), Earthquakes: The lessons of Tohoku-Oki, Nature 475, 300 (21 July 2011) doi:10.1038/nature10265 on-line

Risheng Chu, Shengji Wei, Don V. Helmberger, Zhongwen Zhan, Lupei Zhu, Hiroo Kanamori (2011), Initiation of the great Mw 9.0 Tohoku–Oki earthquake, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 308 (2011) 277–283 PDF

Simons, M., Minson, S.E., Sladen, A., Ortega, F., Jiang, J., Owen, S., Meng, L., Ampuero, J.P., Wei, S., Chu, R., Helmberger, D.V., Kanamori, H., Hetl (2011), The 2011 Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake: Mosaicking the Megathrust from Seconds to Centuries, on-line

Hayes, G.P., Briggs, R.W., Sladen, A., Fielding, E.J., Prentice, C., Hudnut, K., Mann, P., Taylor, F.W., Crone, A.J., Gold, R., Ito, T., and Simons, M. (2010), Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake, Nature Geoscience 3, 800–805 (2010) doi:10.1038/ngeo977 on-line

Sladen, A., H. Tavera, M. Simons, J. P. Avouac, A. O. Konca, H. Perfettini, L. Audin, E. J. Fielding, F. Ortega, and R. Cavagnoud (2010), Source model of the 2007 Mw 8.0 Pisco, Peru earthquake: Implications for seismogenic behavior of subduction megathrusts, J. Geophys. Res., 115, B02405, doi:10.1029/2009JB006429 (on-line)

Konca, A. Ozgun, Sebastien Leprince, Jean-Philippe Avouac, and Don V. Helmberger (2010), Rupture Process of the 1999 Mw 7.1 Duzce Earthquake from Joint Analysis of SPOT, GPS, InSAR, Strong-Motion, and Teleseismic Data: A Supershear Rupture with Variable Rupture Velocity, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 267–288, February 2010, doi: 10.1785/0120090072 on-line

Lai, K.Y., Chen, Y.-G., Wu, Y.-M.,Avouac, J.P., Kuo, Y.-T., Wang, Y.,Chang, C.-H., Lin, K.-C. (2009), The 2005 Ilan earthquake doublet and seismic crisis in northeastern Taiwan: evidence for dyke intrusion associated with on-land propagation of the Okinawa Trough, Geophys. J. Int. (2009) doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04307.x, PDF

Taylor, F.W., Briggs, R.W., Frohlich, C., Brown, A., Hornbach, M., Papabatu, A.K., Meltzner, A.J., and Billy, D. (2008), Rupture across arc segment boundaries in the 1 April 2007 Solomons Earthquake, Nature Geoscience 1, 253 - 257, on-line

Chlieh, M., Avouac, J.P., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R.A., Ji, C., Sieh, K., Sladen, A., Hebert, H., Prawirodirdjo, L., Bock, Y., Galetzka, J. (2007), Coseismic Slip and Afterslip of the Great Mw 9.15 Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake of 2004, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 1A, pp. S152–S173, January 2007, doi: 10.1785/0120050631 PDF

Konca, A.O., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Song, T-R.A., Avouac, J.P., Helmberger, D., Ji, C., Sieh, K., Briggs, R., Meltzner, A. (2007), Rupture Kinematics of the 2005 Mw 8.6 Nias–Simeulue Earthquake from the Joint Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 97, No. 1A, pp. S307–S322, January 2007, doi: 10.1785/0120050632 PDF

Pritchard, M. E., Ji, C., Simons, M. (2006), Distribution of slip from 11 Mw > 6 earthquakes in the northern Chile subduction zone, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B10302, doi:10.1029/2005JB004013, PDF

Avouac, J.P., Ayoub, F., Leprince, S., Konca, O., Helmberger, D.V. (2006), The 2005, Mw 7.6 Kashmir earthquake: Sub-pixel correlation of ASTER images and seismic waveforms analysis, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 249 (2006) 514–528, PDF

Natawidjaja, D.H., Sieh, K., Chlieh, M., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Avouac, J.P., Ward, S.N. (2006), Source parameters of the great Sumatran megathrust earthquakes of 1797 and 1833 inferred from coral microatolls, Science 30 June 2006: Vol. 312 no. 5782 pp. 1921-1926 DOI: 10.1126/science.1126960 on-line

Briggs, R.W., Sieh, K., Meltzner, A.J., Natawidjaja, D., Galetzka, J., Suwargadi, B., Hsu, Y., Simons, M., Hananto, N., Suprihanto, I., Prayudi, D., A (2006), Deformation and Slip Along the Sunda Megathrust in the Great 2005 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake, Science 31 March 2006: Vol. 311 no. 5769 pp. 1897-1901 DOI: 10.1126/science.1122602, on-line

Meltzner, A. J., K. Sieh, M. Abrams, D. C. Agnew, K. W. Hudnut, J.-P. Avouac, and D. H. Natawidjaja (2006), Uplift and subsidence associated with the great Aceh-Andaman earthquake of 2004, J. Geophys. Res., 111, B02407, doi:10.1029/2005JB003891, PDF

Perfettini, H., Avouac, J.P., Ruegg, J.C. (2005), Geodetic displacements and aftershocks following the 2001 Mw = 8.4 Peru earthquake: Implications for the mechanics of the earthquake cycle along subduction zones, J. Geophys. Res., 110, B09404, doi:10.1029/2004JB003522, PDF

Ammon, C., Ji, C.,Thio, H.K., Robinson, D., Ni, S., Hjorleifsdottir, V., Kanamori, H., Lay, T., Das, S., Helmberger, D., Ichinose, G., Polet, J., and Wald, D. (2005), Rupture Process of the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake, Science 20 May 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5725 pp. 1133-1139 DOI: 10.1126/science.1112260, on-line

Lay, T., Kanamori, H., Ammon, C., Nettles, M., Ward, S., Aster, R., Beck, S., Bilek, S., Brudzinski, M., Butler, R., DeShon, H., Ekstrom, G. (2005), The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004, Science 20 May 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5725 pp. 1127-1133 DOI: 10.1126/science.1112250, on-line

Park, J., Song, T-R. A., Tromp, J., Okal, E., Stein, S., Roualt, G., Clevede, E., Laske, G., Kanamori, H., Davis, P., Berger, J., Braitenberg, C., Van Camp, M., Lei, X., Sun, H., Xu, H., and Rosat, S. (2005), Earth's Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake, Science 20 May 2005: Vol. 308 no. 5725 pp. 1139-1144, DOI: 10.1126/science.1112305, on-line

Ni, S., Kanamori, H., Helmberger, D. (2005), Energy radiation from the Sumatra earthquake, Nature VOL 434, 582, PDF

Sieh, K. (2005), Nature VOL 434, 582, What happened and what's next?, PDF


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