Rupture length of the October 9, 1995 Colima-Jalisco earthquake (Mw 8) estimated from tsunami data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 2857-2860

  Ortiz, M ^a,c   Singh, S K ^b   Pacheco, J ^b   Kostoglodov, V ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN'S FUNCTION; SURFACE WAVES; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS; GEOPHYSICS;

AFTERSHOCK; RUPTURE LENGTH;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TSUNAMI;

MEXICO;

ARRIVAL TIME; BAJA CALIFORNIA; MEXICO EARTHQUAKE; OBSERVED DATA; PLATE INTERFACES; POINT OF RUPTURE; RECTANGULAR SOURCE; RUPTURE LENGTH;

EID: 0032148098     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL02059     Document Type: Article

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