The October 9,1995 Colima-Jalisco, Mexico earthquake (Mw 8): An aftershock study and a comparison of this earthquake with those of 1932

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 1997, Pages 2223-2226

  Pacheco, J ^a   Singh, S K ^a   Dominguez J ^a   Hurtado, A ^a   Quintanar, L ^a   Jimenez Z ^a   Yamamoto, J ^a   Gutierrez C ^a,c   Santoyo, M ^a   Bandy, W ^a   Guzman M ^a   Kostoglodov, V ^a   Reyes, G ^b   Ramirez C ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

^c CENAPRED   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

EARTHQUAKE AFTERSHOCKS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; COLIMA-JALISCO EARTHQUAKE 1995; FOCAL MECHANISM; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

MEXICO;

EID: 0031225131     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02070     Document Type: Article

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