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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America; December 1966; v. 56; no. 6; p. 1363-1371
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The S-wave project for focal mechanism studies, earthquakes of 1963

WILLIAM STAUDER and G. A. BOLLINGER

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY, P.O. BOX 8020, COLLEGE STATION ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63156

Abstract

P- and S-wave data for thirty-five earthquakes selected from among the larger earthquakes of 1963 have been investigated. Focal mechanism determinations for twenty-six of these shocks are here presented. The solutions are based upon a combination of a graphical and a computer method for determining the poles of the nodal planes. In all cases it has been found that the mechanism may be adequately represented by a double couple as an equivalent point source of the focus, although in some few instances a single couple cannot be excluded as a possible alternate interpretation. The solution of a mid-Atlantic earthquake of November 17, 1963 is presented as an example of a focus which clearly conforms to the double couple model.

Special attention is called to the solutions for a series of earthquakes in the Kurile Islands, and to three earthquakes of the mid-Atlantic.




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