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From: Transient rheology of the Sumatran mantle wedge revealed by a decade of great earthquakes

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Strain rate and stress relationship for well-resolved example cuboids 2 and 3. a,b Cuboid 2 locates directly down dip of the 2007 Mw 8.4 Bengkulu earthquake, and cuboid 3 sits down dip of the 2004 Mw 9.2 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, respectively (Fig. 6). Grey dashed lines represent the power exponents of strain rate to stress. The black dots indicate the state 1, 2 and 5 years after the earthquakes. The blue curves are the theoretical response of a Burgers spring-dashpot model under constant loading and a stress perturbation

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