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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; October 1989; v. 79; no. 5; p. 1383-1409
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An assessment of source parameters of earthquakes in the cordillera of the western United States

DIANE I. DOSER and ROBERT B. SMITH

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO, EL PASO, TEXAS 79968-0555
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84112

Abstract

Source parameters for 50 earthquakes occurring between 1915 and 1988 have been used to examine the faulting characteristics of magnitude 5.5 to 7.8 earthquakes within the western U. S. cordillera, an area extending from the eastern Sierra Nevada to the Great Plains and from northwestern Montana to Trans-Pecos Texas. Source parameters used in this study include seismic information from first-motion analyses, body and surface waveform modeling, geodetic studies, and geological studies of surface faulting. The principal results of this analysis include: (1) all earthquakes occurred on faults dipping 38° or more, and no evidence for listric of low angle planar faulting was found, (2) all M greater double equals 7.0 earthquakes occurred at depths greater double equals 12 km and were composed of multiple subevents, (3) most earthquakes (>70 per cent) had unilateral ruptures, and (4) no individual subevent had a rupture length >21 km.




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