Strong Ground Motion from the Michoacan, Mexico, Earthquake
- 5 September 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 233 (4768), 1043-1049
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.233.4768.1043
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 potenial 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 descripton of the ground motions that caused the disaster.Keywords
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