Far-field deformations caused by the 2004 Sumatra earthquake

Abstract

Theoretical horizontal displacements caused by the 2004 Sumatra earthquake in the Sichuan-Yunnan area have been calculated according to a spherical dislocation theory and an earthquake-fault model. The results show that the theoretical displacements are basically consistent with the GPS observations in situ. On this basis, we have calculated the co-seismic displacements, strains, changes of gravity and geoid of the whole Earth, including China mainland and vicinity, caused by this earthquake.

Keywords

• the 2004 Sumatra earthquake
• dislocation theory
• displacement
• strain
• gravity change
• far-field deformation