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Enhancing Earthquake Detection Through Machine Learning- An Application To The 2017 Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec Earthquake In Mexico, Marc Adrian Garcia
Enhancing Earthquake Detection Through Machine Learning- An Application To The 2017 Mw 8.2 Tehuantepec Earthquake In Mexico, Marc Adrian Garcia
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The Tehuantepec seismic gap, located off the southern shore of Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico, was previously thought to be an aseismic zone due to no significant event in 100 years. The September 8, 2017 (M8.2) Tehuantepec earthquake disproved this idea and added many questions surrounding the Mexican subduction zone. Specifically, the earthquake did not occur at the subduction megathrust. It ruptured the subducting plate below the megathrust and appeared to stop at the megathrust. Following this event, as well as the September 19, 2017 (M7.1) Morelos-Puebla earthquake, researchers from the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Universidad Autónoma Cuidad …