Contemporary Studies of the 3 May 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora, Mexico (Basin and Range Province) Earthquake

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Research Article| March 01, 2006 Contemporary Studies of the 3 May 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora, Mexico (Basin and Range Province) Earthquake Max Suter Max Suter Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Estación Regional del Noroeste Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico SuterMax@aol.com Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information Max Suter Instituto de Geología Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Estación Regional del Noroeste Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico SuterMax@aol.com Publisher: Seismological Society of America First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Online ISSN: 1938-2057 Print ISSN: 0895-0695 © 2006 by the Seismological Society of America Seismological Research Letters (2006) 77 (2): 134–147. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.77.2.134 Article history First Online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Max Suter; Contemporary Studies of the 3 May 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora, Mexico (Basin and Range Province) Earthquake. Seismological Research Letters 2006;; 77 (2): 134–147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.77.2.134 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search The purpose of this paper is to highlight the outstanding studies George Emory Goodfellow (1855–1910) and José Guadalupe Aguilera Serrano (1857–1941) made of the devastating 3 May 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora earthquake (Figure 1). Goodfellow's observational study, based on his fieldwork in 1887 and partly published in Science in 1887 and 1888 (Goodfellow, 1887a, 1887b, 1888), includes the first surface rupture map of an earthquake in North America and photographs of the rupture scarp by Camillus Sidney Fly (1849–1901). Aguilera's 1888 publication (in Spanish), which is based on his expedition to the epicentral region... You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.