@article{fdi:010069298, title = {{E}arthquake supercycles on the {M}entawai segment of the {S}unda megathrust in the seventeenth century and earlier}, author = {{P}hilibosian, {B}. and {S}ieh, {K}. and {A}vouac, {J}. {P}. and {N}atawidjaja, {D}. {H}. and {C}hiang, {H}. {W}. and {W}u, {C}. {C}. and {S}hen, {C}. {C}. and {D}aryono, {M}. {R}. and {P}erfettini, {H}ugo and {S}uwargadi, {B}. {W}. and {L}u, {Y}. {B}. and {W}ang, {X}. {F}.}, editor = {}, language = {{ENG}}, abstract = {{O}ver at least the past millennium, the {M}entawai segment of the {S}unda megathrust has failed in sequences of closely timed events rather than in single end-to-end ruptureseach the culmination of an earthquake supercycle. {H}ere we synthesize the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century coral microatoll records into a chronology of interseismic and coseismic vertical deformation. {W}e identify at least five discrete uplift events in about 1597, 1613, 1631, 1658, and 1703 that likely correspond to large megathrust ruptures. {T}his sequence contrasts with the following supercycle culmination, which involved only two large ruptures in 1797 and 1833. {F}ault slip modeling suggests that together the five cascading ruptures involved failure of the entire {M}entawai segment. {I}nterseismic deformation rates also changed after the onset of the rupture sequence, as they did after the 1797 earthquake. {W}e model this change as an altered distribution of fault coupling, presumably triggered by the similar to 1597 rupture. {W}e also analyze the far less continuous microatoll record between {A}.{D}. 1 and 1500. {W}hile we cannot confidently delineate the extent of any megathrust rupture during that period, all evidence suggests that individual major ruptures involve only part of the {M}entawai segment, often overlap below the central {M}entawai {I}slands, often trigger coupling changes, and occur in clusters that cumulatively cover the entire {M}entawai segment at the culmination of each supercycle. {I}t is clear that each {M}entawai rupture sequence evolves uniquely in terms of the order and grouping of asperities that rupture, suggesting heterogeneities in fault frictional properties at the similar to 100km scale.}, keywords = {{ASIE} {DU} {SUD} {EST} ; {BENGALE} {GOLFE} ; {ANDAMAN} {MER} ; {INDONESIE} ; {SUMATRA} ; {MENTAWAI}}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{J}ournal of {G}eophysical {R}esearch : {S}olid {E}arth}, volume = {122}, numero = {1}, pages = {642--676}, ISSN = {2169-9313}, year = {2017}, DOI = {10.1002/2016jb013560}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010069298}, }