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Science 5 September 1986:
Vol. 233. no. 4768, pp. 1043 - 1049
DOI: 10.1126/science.233.4768.1043
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Articles

Strong Ground Motion from the Michoacan, Mexico, Earthquake

J. G. ANDERSON 1, P. BODIN 1, J. N. BRUNE 1, J. PRINCE 2, S. K. SINGH 2, R. QUAAS 2, and M. ONATE 2

1 The Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.
2 The Instituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacan 04510, C.U., México, D.F.

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.


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