SISMOTECTÓNICA DEL OCCIDENTE DE LA PROVINCIA DE CHIRIQUÍ A PARTIR DE DATOS DE UNA RED SISMOLOGICA LOCAL

Franklyn Vasquez Guardia; Eduardo Camacho Astigarrabía; Angel Rodríguez

Submitted July 15, 2021

Published 2021-07-14

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): Tecnociencia

SEISMOTECTONICS OF THE WESTERN CHIRIQUI PROVINCE FROM A LOCAL SEISMIC NETWORK DATA

Franklyn Vasquez Guardia⁺⁻
Eduardo Camacho Astigarrabía⁺⁻
Angel Rodríguez⁺⁻

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Vasquez Guardia, F., Camacho Astigarrabía, E. and Rodríguez, A. (2021) “SEISMOTECTONICS OF THE WESTERN CHIRIQUI PROVINCE FROM A LOCAL SEISMIC NETWORK DATA”, Tecnociencia, 23(2), pp. 72–92. Available at: https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/tecnociencia/article/view/2269 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).

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Abstract

In this study, events registered in the border region between Panama and Costa Rica by a new local seismic network, ChiriNet, from May to November 2018, have been relocated. From this data a catalog of the events that occurred in the western region of the Republic of Panama, next to the triple point of contact between the plates of Nazca, Caribbean and Cocos was created. From the polarities of the P waves, the focal mechanisms for the earthquakes which were recorded by a large number of stations were developed. Subsequently the spatial distribution of the epicenters was correlated to previously charted faults inside the limits of the region. It is confirmed that this is a zone of great seismic activity and some alignments suggest the existence of previously unrecognized faults. It is important to improve seismological monitoring in this region of Panama to contribute to a better understanding of its seismotectonics.

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