Title
The Arequipa (Peru) earthquake of June 23, 2001
Date Issued
16 July 2002
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Springer Nature
Abstract
The Arequipa earthquake of 23 June 2001 has been the largest earthquake (Mw = 8.3) occurred in the last century in southern Peru with a maximum intensity of VIII (MM scale). Focal mechanisms of main shock and three larger aftershocks have been studied, showing thrusting solutions for main shock and two aftershocks and normal motion for the event of July, 5. The rupture area has been obtained from distribution of aftershocks. The occurrence of the Arequipa earthquake is related with the convergence process between the Nazca and South America plates.
Start page
279
End page
283
Volume
6
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geografía física
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0036302942
Source
Journal of Seismology
ISSN of the container
13834649
Sponsor(s)
The authors wish to thank to Prof Udías and Dr Mcintosh, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Dr Woodman and Montes, Instituto Geofísico de Peru for helpful comments on the manuscript and to I. Perez-Pacheco for the collaboration in the Figures. Special acknowledgements to the people in the area affected by the earthquake, especially the people of Camaná. This work has been supported in part by the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Spain), project REN2000-0777-C02-C01. Publication 008-CNDG-IGP/2001.
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