Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 2 December 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5753, p. 1431
DOI: 10.1126/science.1119662
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Technical Comments

Response to Comment on "The Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake of 26 December 2004"

Thorne Lay,1,2* Hiroo Kanamori,3 Charles J. Ammon,4 Meredith Nettles,5 Steven N. Ward,2 Richard Aster,6 Susan L. Beck,7 Susan L. Bilek,6 Michael R. Brudzinski,8,9 Rhett Butler,10 Heather R. DeShon,8 Göran Ekström,5 Kenji Satake,11 Stuart Sipkin12

We support the revised estimate of tsunami source length (~800 km) obtained by Neetu et al. Sea-level monitoring with a high sampling rate, good azimuthal coverage, and real-time access, along with detailed bathymetry data around the stations, would improve source region estimation from tsunami arrival times.

1 Earth Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
2 Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
3 Seismological Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 252-21, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
4 Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, 440 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
5 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
6 Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Geophysical Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.
7 Department of Geosciences, The University of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building #77, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
8 Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1215 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
9 Geology Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA.
10 IRIS Consortium, 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20005, USA.
11 Geological Survey of Japan, Advanced Industrial Sciences and Technology, Site C7 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba 305-8567 Japan.
12 National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, CO 80401, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: thorne{at}pmc.ucsc.edu

Read the Full Text

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)