An updated and unified earthquake catalog from 1787 to 2018 for seismic hazard assessment studies in Mexico.

ABSTRACT: Here we present a new updated and unified Poissonian earthquake catalog for Mexico. The details about the catalog compilation, the removal of duplicate events, unifying the magnitude scales, removal of dependent events through the declustering process and its completeness analysis are presented. Earthquake and focal mechanism data have been compiled from various local, regional and international sources. Large earthquake events (M_W ≥ 6.5) have been carefully revised for their epicentral locations and magnitudes from trusted publications. Different magnitude-conversion relationships, compatible with available local and regional ones, has been established to obtain unified moment magnitude estimates for the whole catalog. Completeness periods for the declustered catalog were estim

SUBMITTER: Sawires R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6820746 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature