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The Sonora earthquake of 1887

John Randolph Sumner
Published: 01 August 1977
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1977) 67 (4): 1219–1223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0670041219
... Valley, Basin and Range province, Nevada , Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. 84 , 627 - 632 . Bulletin of the SeismologicalSociety of America. Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 1219-1223.August 1977 THE SONORA EARTHQUAKE OF 1887 BY JOHN RANDOLPH SUMNER* INTRODUCTION The 1887 Sonoran earthquake is historically...
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The Long-Lasting Aftershock Series of the 3 May 1887 M w 7.5 Sonora Earthquake in the Mexican Basin and Range Province

Raúl R. Castro, Peter M. Shearer, Luciana Astiz, Max Suter, Cesar Jacques-Ayala, Frank Vernon
Published: 01 June 2010
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2010) 100 (3): 1153–1164.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120090180
... faults and associated half-grabens form the western edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental plateau in northeastern Sonora, Mexico (Fig.  1 ). Slip in 1887 within this segmented normal-fault array caused the largest historical earthquake of the southern Basin and Range tectonic-physiographic province...
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Structural Configuration of the Otates Fault (Southern Basin and Range Province) and Its Rupture in the 3 May 1887 M W 7.5 Sonora, Mexico, Earthquake

Max Suter
Published: 01 December 2008
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2008) 98 (6): 2879–2893.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120080129
... and Range Province normal faults and associated half-grabens form the western edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental Plateau in northeastern Sonora, Mexico, over a distance greater than 300 km (Fig.  1 ). Slip in 1887, within this segmented normal-fault array, caused the largest historic earthquake...
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Contemporary Studies of the 3 May 1887 M w 7.5 Sonora, Mexico (Basin and Range Province) Earthquake

Max Suter
Published: 01 March 2006
Seismological Research Letters (2006) 77 (2): 134–147.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.77.2.134
... ( 1887b ) reported about a first trip to the earthquake zone in Sonora, on which he accompanied Professor Ferdinand Lee Clark of Honolulu (Tombstone Daily Epitaph, 9 July 1887), and included a sketch map of the rupture trace ( Figure 3 ). He described the surface rupture as a fault with a general north...
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Active Tectonics of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico (Southern Basin and Range Province) and the 3 May 1887 M w 7.4 Earthquake

Max Suter, Juan Contreras
Published: 01 March 2002
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2002) 92 (2): 581–589.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120000220
... et al. [ 1998 ] and the digital elevation model shown in Fig. 1 ). There are indications that this deformation is still active. Major historical earthquakes have occurred in this region, such as the 1887 Bavispe, Sonora ( M w 7.4) ( Natali and Sbar, 1982 ), the 1928 Parral, Chihuahua ( M w 6.5...
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Attenuation of intensity for the 1887 northern Sonora, Mexico earthquake

Marc L. Sbar, Susan M. DuBois
Published: 01 December 1984
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1984) 74 (6): 2613–2628.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0740062613
...Marc L. Sbar; Susan M. DuBois Abstract Contouring the intensity data for the northern Sonora earthquake of 1887 yields an area of perceptibility defined by the MM III isoseismal that is greatly elongated to the southeast of the epicenter along the Sierra Madre Occidental. North of the epicenter...
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The Sonora Earthquake of 1887

Jose G. Aguilera
Published: 01 March 1920
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1920) 10 (1): 31–44.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0100010031
...Jose G. Aguilera Copyright © 1920, by the Seismological Society of America 1 The effects of the Sonora Earthquake of May 3, 1887, were described in a brief article by Geo. E. Goodfellow in Science , Vol. XI, 1888, and in a more extended paper by Jose G. Aguilera published...
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The <span class="search-highlight">1887</span> <span class="search-highlight">Sonora</span>, Mexico, <span class="search-highlight">earthquake</span> for mmi V (smaller circles) and VI (...

The 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake for mmi V (smaller circles) and VI (...

Published: 01 December 2006
Figure 15. The 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake for mmi V (smaller circles) and VI (larger circles) assignments ( Table 4 ). See legend to Figure 3 for definition of symbols and contours. The blue line is the extent of surface displacement on the Pitaycachi fault ( Natali and Sbar, 1982
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Seismic Attenuation in Northeastern Sonora, Mexico

Raúl R. Castro, Cristina Condori, Oscar Romero, César Jacques, Max Suter
Published: 01 April 2008
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2008) 98 (2): 722–732.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120070062
... of the selected data set cover the epicentral region of the May 1887 ( M w 7.5) Sonora earthquake. We used the best-located earthquakes recorded by RESNES between 2003 and 2004 to analyze the spectral amplitude decay of body waves with hypocentral distance. The database consists of 44 earthquakes with magnitudes...
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Seismicity in the epicentral region of the 1887 northeastern Sonoran earthquake, Mexico

Steven G. Natali, Marc L. Sbar
Published: 01 February 1982
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1982) 72 (1): 181–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0720010181
...Steven G. Natali; Marc L. Sbar abstract The 1887 Sonoran earthquake, in northeastern Sonora, Mexico, has an 80-km rupture length, with an average 3-m displacement, and an assumed 16-km depth of rupture. This corresponds to a seismic moment of 1.27 × 10 27 dyne-cm and an M s of 7.4. Seven to ten...
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mmi Attenuation and Historical Earthquakes in the Basin and Range Province of Western North America

William H. Bakun
Published: 01 December 2006
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2006) 96 (6): 2206–2220.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120060045
...Figure 15. The 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake for mmi V (smaller circles) and VI (larger circles) assignments ( Table 4 ). See legend to Figure 3 for definition of symbols and contours. The blue line is the extent of surface displacement on the Pitaycachi fault ( Natali and Sbar, 1982...
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Location map showing the rupture trace of the <span class="search-highlight">1887</span> <span class="search-highlight">Sonora</span>, Mexico, earthqua...

Location map showing the rupture trace of the 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthqua...

Published: 01 December 2008
Figure 1. Location map showing the rupture trace of the 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake (bold black lines). Gray solid line: international boundary; gray dashed lines: state boundaries; box: region depicted in Figure  2 .
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Map of the b &amp; r province and surrounding regions. The approximate p...

Map of the b & r province and surrounding regions. The approximate p...

Published: 01 December 2006
and blue circles, respectively. Epicenters of test earthquakes are shown as red dots. Locations of the 1872 Owens Valley, California, and 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquakes are black triangles.
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Location map showing the rupture trace of the <span class="search-highlight">1887</span> <span class="search-highlight">Sonora</span>, Mexico, earthqua...

Location map showing the rupture trace of the 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthqua...

Published: 01 March 2006
Figure 1. Location map showing the rupture trace of the 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake (within box, marked by bold black lines). B: Bavispe River; V: Óputo (now Villa Hidalgo); H: Huásabas; G: Granados; M: Oposura (now Moctezuma); gray solid line: international boundary; gray dashed lines
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Estimation of Local Magnitude in Northeastern Sonora, Mexico, Using Empirical Relations Based on Recorded Duration

Gina P. Villalobos‐Escobar, Raúl R. Castro
Published: 11 March 2015
Seismological Research Letters (2015) 86 (3): 870–875.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0220140027
... is tectonically and morphologically situated in the southern Basin and Range Province ( Suter and Contreras, 2002 ). The region of Sonora is particularly interesting, because the largest historical earthquake (3 May 1887, M w  7.5) occurred in this province. The town of Bavispe was destroyed during...
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The 2013 Seismic Swarm in Chihuahua, Mexico: Evidence of Active Extensional Deformation in the Southern Basin and Range

Gerardo Suárez, Edgar Sánchez‐Alvaro, Elías Lomas‐Delgado, Gustavo Arvizu‐Lara
Published: 01 November 2016
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2016) 106 (6): 2686–2694.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120160179
.... Nevertheless, other relatively large intraplate earthquakes have taken place in this region (e.g., Doser, 1987 ; Doser and Rodríguez, 1993 ; Suter, 2001 ). Examples of these earthquakes are the 1887 M w  7.4 Sonora or Bavispe earthquake, which is among the largest recorded normal‐fault earthquakes...
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Digital elevation model of northeastern <span class="search-highlight">Sonora</span> (location marked in Fig.  1 ...

Digital elevation model of northeastern Sonora (location marked in Fig.  1 ...

Published: 01 December 2008
Figure 2. Digital elevation model of northeastern Sonora (location marked in Fig.  1 ). Rupture trace of the 1887 Sonoran earthquake marked by white bold lines (footwalls on the east side). P, Pitáycachi segment; T, Teras segment; O, Otates segment; a, Bavispe River; b, San Bernardino (Batepito
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Frequency and size of quaternary surface ruptures of the pitaycachi fault, northeastern Sonora, Mexico

William B. Bull, Philip A. Pearthree
Published: 01 April 1988
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (1988) 78 (2): 956–978.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/BSSA0780020956
... Wiley and Sons , 492 pp. DuBois S. M. Sbar M. L. (1981) . The 1887 earthquake in Sonora—Analysis of regional ground shaking and ground failure , in Proceedings of Conference...
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Seismotectonic map of northeastern <span class="search-highlight">Sonora</span> (location marked in Fig. 1 ) wit...

Seismotectonic map of northeastern Sonora (location marked in Fig. 1 ) wit...

Published: 01 March 2002
Figure 2. Seismotectonic map of northeastern Sonora (location marked in Fig. 1 ) with earthquake epicenters, the 1887 rupture trace (in black; A, Pitáycachi segment; B, Teras segment; C, Otates segment), focal mechanisms, and the interpreted traces of major Basin and Range faults (in gray
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The Spectral Decay Parameter Kappa in Northeastern Sonora, Mexico

Avelina I. Fernández, Raúl R. Castro, Carlos I. Huerta
Published: 01 February 2010
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (2010) 100 (1): 196–206.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120090049
.... Hurtado A. Fernandez A. I. ( 2009 ). Body-wave attenuation near the rupture of the 1887 Sonora, Mexico, earthquake ( M w 7.5) Geofís. Int. 48 , 297 - 304 . Castro R. R. Pacor F. Sala A. Petrungaro C. ( 1996 ). S wave attenuation and site effects in the region...
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