Determination of causative fault parameters for some recent Iranian earthquakes using near field SH-wave data

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 621-628

  Hamzehloo, H ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Causative fault; Near field; Non linear least square; Point source; SH waves

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SLIP; FOCAL MECHANISM; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

IRANIA;

EID: 20044385110     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2004.06.005     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. K. Aki P.G. Richards Quantitative Seismology: Theory and Methods vol. 1 1980 W.H.Freeman and Co San Francisco
2. N.N. Ambraseys C.P. Melville A. 1982 History of Persian Earthquakes 1982 Cambridge University Press London
3. C. Baker J. Jackson K. Priestley Earthquakes on Kazerun line in the Zagros mountains of Iran: Strike-slip faulting within a folded-and-thrust belt Geophysical Journal International 115 1993 41-61
4. M. Berberian Contribution to the seismotectonics of Iran (Part II) Geological Survey of Iran, Report No. 39 1976
5. M. Berberian Earthquake faulting and bedding thrust associated with the Tabas-E-Golshan (Iran) earthquake of September 16, 1978 Bulletin Seismological Society of America 69 1979 1861-1887
6. M. Berberian D. Papastamatiou Khurgu (north Bandar Abbas, Iran) earthquake of March 21, 1977: A preliminary field report and seismotectonic discussion Bulletin Seismological Society of America 68 1978 411-428
7. B. Gutenberg C.F. Richter Seismicity of the Earth and Associated Phenomena 1954 Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ
8. N.A. Haskell Crustal reflection of plane SH waves Journal of Geophysical Research 65 1960 4147-4150
9. Hessami, H., Jamali, F., Tabassi, H., 2003. Major active Faults of Iran, Scate 1:2,500,000, International Institute of earthquake engineering and Seismology.
10. J. Jackson T. Fitch Basement faulting and the focal depth of the large earthquakes in the Zagros mountains (Iran) Geophysical Journal Research Astronomy Society 64 1981 561-586
11. J. Jackson D.P. Mckenzie Active tectonics of the Alpine-Himalayan Belt between western Turkey and Pakistan Geophysics Journal Research Astronomy Society 77 1984 185-264
12. K. Kadinsky-Cade M. Barazangi Seismotectonics of southern Iran: The Oman line Tectonics 1 1982 389-412
13. K. Kasahara Earthquake Mechanics Cambridge Earth Sciences Series 1981 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
14. T. Lay T.C. Wallace Modern Global Seismology 1995 Academic Press
15. D. McKenzie Active tectonics of the Mediterranean region Geophysical Journal Research Astronomy Society 30 1972 109-185
16. M. Niazi J.R. Basford Seismicity of Iranian plateau and Hindukush region Bulletin Seismological Society of America 58 1968 417-426
17. J. Ni M. Barazangi Seismotectonics of the Zagros continental collision zone and comparison with the Himalayas Journal of Geophysical Research 91 1986 8205-8218
18. A.A. Nowroozi Seismo-Tectonics of the Persian plateau, Eastern Turkey, Caucasus, and Hindu-Kush regions Bulletin Seismological Society of America 61 1971 317-341
19. A.A. Nowroozi Seismotectonic provinces of Iran Bulletin Seismological Society of America 66 1976 1249-1276
20. I. Sarkar H. Hamzehloo K.N. Khattri Estimation of causative fault Parameters of the Rudbar earthquake of June 20, 1990 from near field SH-wave Data Tectonophysics 364 2003 55-70
21. J. Shoja-Taheri M. Niazi Seismicity of the Iranian plateau and bordering regions Bulletin Seismological Society of America 71 1981 477-489