Teleseismic body-wave analysis of the 9 October, 1995 (Mw = 8.0), Colima-Jalisco, Mexico earthquake, and its largest foreshock and aftershock

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 547-550

  Escobedo, David ^a   Pacheco, Javier F ^a   Suárez, Gerardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; EARTHQUAKES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; LEAST-SQUARES INVERSION; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MEXICO EARTHQUAKE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RUPTURE VELOCITIES; SOURCE TIME FUNCTIONS; TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES;

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY;

TELESEISMIC BODY WAVES;

EARTHQUAKE; SOURCE PROCESS;

MEXICO;

EID: 0032004815     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00061     Document Type: Article

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