How to cite the CMT Catalog:
The Global CMT project is a research activity funded by the National Science
Foundation, and we greatly appreciate users of the catalog including appropriate
citations to our work in their published articles.
For general use of the CMT catalog:
Please cite the following pair of papers, which give (1) the basic methodology and
approach; and (2) the most recent description of how we conduct the CMT analyses,
including a number of significant improvements to the analysis.
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Dziewonski, A. M., T.-A. Chou and J. H. Woodhouse, Determination of earthquake
source parameters from waveform data for studies of global and regional seismicity,
J. Geophys. Res., 86, 2825-2852, 1981. doi:10.1029/JB086iB04p02825
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Ekström, G., M. Nettles, and A. M. Dziewonski, The global CMT project 2004-2010:
Centroid-moment tensors for 13,017 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter.,
200-201, 1-9, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2012.04.002
For particular earthquakes or earthquake sequences:
For some earthquakes or earthquake sequences of particular interest, we have conducted
focused studies; for authors relying primarily on these studies, it may be appropriate to
cite the paper describing our focused study, instead of or in addition to the references
given above. Some of these are described on the following web page:
Special studies of particular earthquakes or
sets of earthquakes
(these include, e.g., earthquakes in Haiti and the Gulf of Aden, the Tohoku earthquake and
aftershocks, glacial earthquakes, etc.).
Some CMT solutions are also available for intermediate-depth and deep earthquakes from
the pre-digital era; solutions for events in 1976 were calculated primarily from HGLP
data. These solutions, and the analysis, are described in the following publications:
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Ekström, G., and M. Nettles, Calibration of the HGLP seismograph network and
centroid-moment tensor analysis of significant earthquakes of 1976, Phys.
Earth Planet. Inter., 101, 219-243, 1997. doi:10.1016/S0031-9201(97)00002-2
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Huang, W. C., E. A. Okal, G. Ekström, and M. P. Salganik, Centroid moment tensor
solutions for deep earthquakes predating the digital era: The World-Wide Standardized
Seismograph Network dataset (1962-1976), Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 99, 121-129, 1997.
doi:10.1016/S0031-9201(96)03177-9
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Chen, P. F., M. Nettles, E. A. Okal, and G. Ekström, Centroid moment tensor solutions
for intermediate-depth earthquakes of the WWSSN-HGLP era (1962-1975), Phys. Earth Planet.
Inter., 124, 1-7, 2001. doi:10.1016/S0031-9201(00)00220-X
Further information regarding citing the CMT Catalog can be found here:
how to cite the Global CMT catalog
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