Strong Ground Motion from the Michoacan, Mexico, Earthquake
Abstract
The network of strong motion accelerographs in Mexico includes instruments that were installed, under an international cooperative research program, in sites selected for the high potential of a large earthquake. The 19 September 1985 earthquake (magnitude 8.1) occurred in a seismic gap where an earthquake was expected. As a result, there is an excellent description of the ground motions that caused the disaster.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.233.4768.1043
- Bibcode:
- 1986Sci...233.1043A