{"id":1201,"date":"2014-09-26T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2014-10-23T14:50:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T13:50:45","slug":"new-paper-on-segmentation-of-the-sumatran-fault-in-grl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2014\/09\/new-paper-on-segmentation-of-the-sumatran-fault-in-grl\/","title":{"rendered":"New paper on &#8220;Segmentation of the Sumatran fault&#8221; in GRL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper has been published in\u00a0Geophysical Research Letters, with contribution from current G&amp;G postgraduate research student Thomas Hall, investigating\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000\">Segmentation of the Sumatran fault.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this paper the authors\u00a0use a clustering algorithm to partition seismicity into discrete clusters. From a seismology point of view cluster are representatives of source zones and depending on the spatial scale clusters can represent different geological features. In this instance they\u00a0selected seismicity attributed to the great Sumatran fault and assume that defined clusters indicate segments along the Sumatran fault. From this study they\u00a0show that there are 16 segments that range from 30-190km in length (Figure 1).<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2014GL060242\/abstract%20\">http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2014GL060242\/abstract\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2014\/09\/gsf-gg.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2014\/09\/gsf-gg-791x1024.png\" alt=\"gsf gg\" width=\"640\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2014\/09\/gsf-gg-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/files\/2014\/09\/gsf-gg-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Figure 1: Earthquake clusters along the Sumatran fault. Each individual cluster is coloured differently. Inset <strong>B<\/strong> explores <em>K<\/em>, the number of clusters fitted to Sumatran fault seismicity. Competing optimum <em>K<\/em> are identified by large KL indices [<em>Krzanowski and Lai,<\/em> 1988] in the range <em>K<\/em> = 2-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper has been published in\u00a0Geophysical Research Letters, with contribution from current G&amp;G postgraduate research student Thomas Hall, investigating\u00a0Segmentation of the Sumatran fault.\u00a0 In this paper the authors\u00a0use a clustering algorithm to partition seismicity into discrete clusters. From a seismology point of view cluster are representatives of source zones and depending on the spatial&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/2014\/09\/new-paper-on-segmentation-of-the-sumatran-fault-in-grl\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New paper on &#8220;Segmentation of the Sumatran fault&#8221; in GRL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64890,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217],"tags":[786358,493980],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-segmentation-sumatra","tag-seismic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64890"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/ggblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}