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Assessment of the Maximum Magnitude of Strike-Slip Faults in Myanmar

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We estimate the maximum magnitude scaling relationships for strike-slip earthquakes in Myanmar based on the well-investigated coseismic fault rupture of two earthquake events in Myanmar: the 2011 Tarlay and 2012 Thabeikkyin earthquakes. We compare the relationship between the model parameters of the two earthquakes, namely the fault rupture areas (A), length (L), and slip rate (S), calculated using empirical scaling laws models with the estimated earthquake magnitude. The different maximum magnitudes resulting from the empirical scaling models suggest that using a proper scaling relationship is very important for estimating the maximum magnitude for strike-slip faults in Myanmar. This study demonstrates that earthquake magnitude from strike-slip faults in Myanmar is controlled by the fault rupture length and slip rate.

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Acknowledgements

We are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful reviews, which substantially improved the manuscript. RH would like to thank the AUN/SEED-Net Project for a Doctoral Fellowship (2015–2018) for the support of research studies at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. EG was supported by the 2019 A-Category Research Fund of the Bandung Institute of Technology No. 0109/I1.B04/PL/2019. The figures were produced using generic mapping tools (Wessel and Smith 1998).

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  1. Graduate Program of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Earth Science and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia

    Razar Hlaing

  2. Global Geophysics Research Group, Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia

    Endra Gunawan & Sri Widiyantoro

  3. Geodesy Research Group, Faculty of Earth Science and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia

    Irwan Meilano

  4. Petrology, Volcanology and Geochemistry Research Group, Faculty of Earth Science and Technology, Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia

    Asep Saepuloh

  5. Department of Geology, University of Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar

    Razar Hlaing

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Hlaing, R., Gunawan, E., Widiyantoro, S. et al. Assessment of the Maximum Magnitude of Strike-Slip Faults in Myanmar. Geotech Geol Eng 37, 5113–5122 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10706-019-00965-3

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