July 30, 1943 Puerto Rico Earthquake Archive (aftershock)


1943 7/30 01:02 66.86W 19.17N 24Km Mw=6.0 Off North West Coast of Puerto Rico


1. Seismograms
Selected seismograms at the Denver Federal Center from this earthquake were scanned as part of the IASPEI Scanning Project (small PDF versions of large .tif files lilnked below).

link to compressed .tif file format) (includes little .jpg "thumbnails").

2. Selected Information
Aftershock of event on July 29th. Source mechanism completed by Doser et al. (2005).

3. Reference

Doser, D., C. Rodríguez, C. Flores, 2005, Historical Earthquakes of the Puerto Rico – Virgin Islands region (1915-1963), P. Mann ed., GSA Special Paper 385, Active tectonics & seismic hazards of PR, the virgin islands, and offshore areas, 103-115

(Last Updated: January 3, 2010) (mfd)