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Zanzerkia et al. 2003
Zanzerkia, E.E., Beroza, G.C. and Vidale, J.E. (2003). Waveform analysis of the 1999 Hector Mine foreshock sequence. Geophysical Research Letters 30: doi: 10.1029/2002GL016383. issn: 0094-8276.

By inspecting continuous Trinet waveform data, we find 42 foreshocks in the 20-hour period preceding the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake, a substantial increase from the 18 foreshocks in the catalog. We apply waveform cross-correlation and the double-difference method to locate these events. Despite low signal-to-noise ratio data for many of the uncataloged foreshocks, correlation-based arrival time measurements are sufficient to locate all but three of these events, with location uncertainties from ~100 m to 2 km. We find that the foreshocks fall on a different plane than the initial subevent of the mainshock, and that the foreshocks spread out over the plane with time during the sequence as the time of the mainshock approaches.

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Seismology, Seismicity and seismotectonics, Seismology, Instruments and techniques, Seismology, General or miscellaneous
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Geophysical Research Letters
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