Source areas of the Acapulco-San Marcos, Mexico earthquakes of 1962 (M 7.1; 7.0) and 1957 (M 7.7), as constrained by tsunami and uplift records

Geofisica Internacional

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 337-348

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

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Rupture zone; South Mexico; Tide gauge records; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038335376     PISSN: 00167169     EISSN: 2954436X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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