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      The great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 26 December 2004.

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          The two largest earthquakes of the past 40 years ruptured a 1600-kilometer-long portion of the fault boundary between the Indo-Australian and southeastern Eurasian plates on 26 December 2004 [seismic moment magnitude (Mw) = 9.1 to 9.3] and 28 March 2005 (Mw = 8.6). The first event generated a tsunami that caused more than 283,000 deaths. Fault slip of up to 15 meters occurred near Banda Aceh, Sumatra, but to the north, along the Nicobar and Andaman Islands, rapid slip was much smaller. Tsunami and geodetic observations indicate that additional slow slip occurred in the north over a time scale of 50 minutes or longer.

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          Journal
          Science
          Science (New York, N.Y.)
          American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
          1095-9203
          0036-8075
          May 20 2005
          : 308
          : 5725
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
          Article
          308/5725/1127
          10.1126/science.1112250
          15905392
          65f0ef19-69f3-43fe-b2ab-e5d8d16c5405
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