TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krüger, Frank
A1  - Scherbaum, Frank
T1  - The 29 September 1969, Ceres, South Africa, Earthquake: full waveform moment tensor inversion for point source and kinematic source parameters
T2  - Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
N2  - The Ceres earthquake of 29 September 1969 is the largest known earthquake in southern Africa. Digitized analog recordings from Worldwide Standardized Seismographic Network stations (Powell and Fries, 1964) are used to retrieve the point source moment tensor and the most likely centroid depth of the event using full waveform modeling. A scalar seismic moment of 2.2-2.4 x 10(18) N center dot m corresponding to a moment magnitude of 6.2-6.3 is found. The analysis confirms the pure strike-slip mechanism previously determined from onset polarities by Green and Bloch (1971). Overall good agreement with the fault orientation previously estimated from local aftershock recordings is found. The centroid depth can be constrained to be less than 15 km. In a second analysis step, we use a higher order moment tensor based inversion scheme for simple extended rupture models to constrain the lateral fault dimensions. We find rupture propagated unilaterally for 4.7 s from east-southwest to west-northwest for about 17 km ( average rupture velocity of about 3: 1 km/s).
Y1  - 2014
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38111
SN  - 0037-1106
SN  - 1943-3573
VL  - 104
IS  - 1
SP  - 576
EP  - 581
PB  - Seismological Society of America
CY  - Albany
ER  -