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Nature Research, Nature Geoscience, 3(1), p. 142-142, 2008

DOI: 10.1038/ngeo141

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Effect of the Sumatran mega-earthquake on the global magnitude cut-off and event rate

Journal article published in 2008 by Ian G. Main, Lun Li, John McCloskey, Mark Naylor ORCID
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Abstract

The great Sumatran earthquake of 2004 allows us to assess the statistics and statistical stability of the global earthquake catalogue from the digital era. A key question is: do such mega-earthquakes continue to follow the Gutenberg–Richter (G–R) trend1, or is there an observable cut-off2?