Seismicity of Central and South America

• Main Authors: Gutenberg, B., Richter, Charles F.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Depart of state. Division of International Conferences 1940
• Subjects: Galapagos; Pacific; Sandwich Islands; South Georgia; South Sandwich Islands
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/110962/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/110962/1/Gutenberg_1942p455.pdf; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210920-172507249

The seismic zones of Central and South America are part of the circum-Pacific belt of activity which includes a large majority of the shallow shocks of the world, a still larger fraction of those at intermediate depth (60 to 300 kilometers) and all those at great depth (300-700 kilometers). This bel...