Transient fault slip in Guerrero, southern Mexico

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Oct 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001georl..28.3753l&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 28, Issue 19, p. 3753-3756

Physics

Geophysics

59

Geodesy And Gravity: Crustal Movements-Interplate, Mathematical Geophysics: Modeling, Seismology: Seismic Hazard Assessment And Prediction, Tectonophysics: Dynamics, Seismotectonics

Scientific paper

The Guerrero region of southern Mexico has accumulated more than 5 m of relative plate motion since the last major earthquake. In early 1998, a continuous GPS site in Guerrero recorded a transient displacement. Modeling indicates that anomalous fault slip propagated from east to west along-strike of the subduction megathrust. Campaign GPS and leveling data corroborate the model. The moment release was equivalent to an Mw>=6.5 earthquake. No M>5 earthquakes accompanied the event, indicating the frictional regime is velocity-strengthening at the location of slip.

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