Palu Koro Fault
The Palu-Koro Fault (also known as the Sarasin Line after its discoverers ) is a tectonic fault on or off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi .
The transform fault , first described by Paul and Fritz Sarasin in 1901, runs NNW to SSE from the Strait of Makassar through the Bay of Palu and the Palu river valley to the northern part of the Gulf of Bone and represents a border between two large geological "provinces" of the island It lies in a region in which three large plates converge, i.e. move towards one another: the Eurasian plate on which the fault lies, the Australian plate and the Philippine plate . At the fault itself, the clods move past each other at a speed of about 42 millimeters per year, with the eastern one moving north and the western one moving south ( dextral displacement).
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Weber: Cultural Landscape Change in Central Sulawesi (= Pacific Forum . Volume 12 ). Universitätsverlag Göttingen, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-938616-52-9 , p. 47 , doi : 10.17875 / gup2006-224 .
- ^ Arya Dipa: Deteriorating Palu-Koro fault amplified quake's jolt. In: The Jakarta Post . October 1, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .
- ^ A. Walpersdorf, C. Vigny, C. Subarya, P. Manurung: Monitoring of the Palu-Koro Fault (Sulawesi) by GPS . In: American Geophysical Union (Ed.): Geophysical Research Letters . Vol. 25, No. 13 , July 1, 1998, pp. 2313 (English, article online [PDF; 665 kB ]).
- ↑ Jason R. Patton, Shinji Toda, Ross Stein, Volkan Sevilgen: The Palu-Koro fault ruptures in a M = 7.5 quake in Sulawesi, Indonesia, triggering a tsunami and likely more shocks. In: temblor.net. September 28, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 .