The 3 August 2009 Mw 6.9 Canal de Ballenas region, Gulf of California, earthquake and its aftershocks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 929-939

  Castro, Raúl R ^a   Valdés González, Carlos ^b   Shearer, Peter ^c   Wong, Victor ^a   Astiz, Luciana ^c   Vernon, Frank ^c   Pérez Vertti, Arturo ^a   Mendoza, Antonio ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; FOCAL MECHANISM; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MAIN EVENT; ME-XICO; NORTH AMERICAN; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE LENGTH; STRESS DROP; TRANSFORM FAULT;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SANITARY SEWERS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

AFTERSHOCK; BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMOLOGY;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; BALLENAS CHANNEL; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79957888870     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100154     Document Type: Article

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