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Surface wave tomography in Northwestern South America
Juan Carlos Bermúdez Barrios (M. Sc. Student)Maria Cristina Dimaté Castellanos (Thesis Director)
Tectonic context
• Northwestern South America: convergence zone between Nazca, Caribbean plates, Chocó-Panamá Block and South American Plates.
• Broad deformation zone in the Colombian Andes
(A. Taboada, L. Rivera, et al., Tectonics, 2000)
Problems to solve• Plate boundaries: Caribbean plate southern boundary in Colombia
In Audemar et al., 1999Taboada et al., 2000
?
• Nazca and Caribbean geometry
Corredor, 2000)
• ... and Panamá Block
(A. Taboada, L. Rivera, et al., Tectonics, 2000)
•Lateral variations in velocity corresponding to large tectonic provinces: Panamá block, Andean Block.
• Moho depth
Data
Stations Map
Red triangles: IRIS stations
Blue triangles: RSNC stations
Miller et al., 2009
Events similar to ...
Questions
• Range of station-event distances
• Range of surface wave periods
• Preprocessing of waveforms