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A computer program for focal mechanism determination combining P and S wave data

1969; Seismological Society of America; Volume: 59; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1785/bssa0590020503

1943-3573

Agustín Udías, Dieter Baumann,

Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

abstract A computer program has been developed to find the orientation of a double couple source model for the mechanism of an earthquake which best satisfies the data from P and S waves. The relationship between the two axes of the solution given by the equations for the polarization angle of S is used in order to rapidly find the orientation of the source model for which a total error value involving the error of S and P data is a minimum. The program gives best results for data from homogeneous instruments of similar period range. Solutions for three earthquakes, selected because of the orientation of the source, are presented and the reliability of their solutions under ideal conditions is discussed.