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San Juan, Argentina 1987-1988

panda array heading with small adorable panda bearDuring September 22, 1987 and December 30, 1988, Professor Jer-Ming Chiu conducted an experiment in San Juan, Argentina using eighty short-period high- and low-gain Portable Array for Numerical Data Acquisition system (PANDA) to study:

  • lateral velocity variations and crustal thickness variation (Andean foreland)
  • attenuation of high-frequency seismic waves (central Andean plateau)
  • seismotectonics (Sierra Pie de Palo)
  • seismicity and tectonics (Jujuy province)

 A network code, "XA", was assigned by the Federation of Digital Seismographic Network (FDSN).

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the nsf logoCenter for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), University of Memphis. Publications related to this research project are listed below.

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 Publications:

Lateral velocity variations in the Andean foreland in Argentina determined with the JHD method, (1991), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 81(6), 2441-2457, J. Pujol, J.M. Chiu, R. Smalley Jr., M. Regnier, B. Isacks, J.L. Chatelain, T. Cahill, J. Vlasity, D. Vlasity, J. Castano, and Puebla.

Seismicity and tectonics in Jujuy Province, Northwestern Argentina, (1992), Tectonics, 11(5), 944-959, Cahill, T., B. Isacks, D. Whitman, J.L. Chatelain, A. Perez, and J.M. Chiu.

Attenuation of high-frequency seismic waves beneath the central Andean plateau, (1992), J. Geophy. Res., 97(B13), 19929-19947, Whitman, D., B.L. Isacks, J-L. Chatelain, J.M. Chiu, and A. Perez.

Seismotectonics of Sierra Pie de Palo, a basement block uplift in the Andean foreland of Argentina, (1992), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 82(6), 2549-2571, Regnier, M., J.L. Chatelain, R. Smalley, J.M. Chiu, B.L. Isacks, and M. Araujo.

Basement seismicity beneath the Andean Precordillera thin-skinned thrust belt and its implications for crustal and lithospheric behavior, (1993), Tectonics, 12(1), 63-76, Smalley, R., J. Pujol, M. Regnier, J.M. Chiu, J-L Chatelain, B.L. Isacks, M. Araujo, and N. Puebla.

Crustal thickness variation in the Andean Foreland, Argentina, from converted waves, (1994), Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 84(4), 1097-1111. Regnier, M., J.M. Chiu, R. Smalley, B.L. Isacks, and M. Araujo.