Harvard Seismology:
Selected Centroid-Moment Tensor
Project Publications

Methodology

The CMT methodology is described in the following three papers:

Dziewonski, A.M. and J.H. Woodhouse, An experiment in the systematic study of global seismicity: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 201 moderate and large earthquakes of 1981, J. Geophys. Res., 88: 3247-3271, 1983.

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.

Woodhouse, J.H. and A.M. Dziewonski, Mapping the upper mantle: three dimensional modelling of Earth structure by inversion of seismic waveforms, J. Geophys. Res., 89: 5953-5986, 1984.

A good, comprehensive summary can be found in:

Dziewonski, A.M. and J.H. Woodhouse, Studies of the seismic source using normal-mode theory, in Kanamori, H. and E. Boschi, eds., Earthquakes: observation, theory, and interpretation: notes from the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" (1982: Varenna, Italy) , North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam, pp. 45-137, 1983.

A description of the Quick CMT algorithm can be found in:

Ekström, G., Rapid Earthquake Analysis Utilizes the Internet, Computers in Physics, 8: 632-638, 1994.

CMT Solutions

Since 1983, CMT solutions have been published on a quarterly basis in Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors. The most recent complete list of CMT publications can be found in Dziewonski et al., Centroid-Moment Tensor Solutions for October - December, 1999, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., in press. Solutions for the years 1977-1982 can be found in the following papers:

Giardini, D., A.M. Dziewonski and J.H. Woodhouse, Centroid-moment tensor solutions for 113 large earthquakes in 1977-1980, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 40: 259-272, 1985.

Giardini, D., Systematic analysis of deep seismicity: 200 centroid-moment tensor solutions for earthquakes between 1977 and 1980, Geophys. J. R. Astron. Soc., 77: 883-914, 1984.

Ekström, G. and A.M. Dziewonski, Centroid-moment tensor solutions for 35 earthquakes in western North America (1977-1983), Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 75: 23-39, 1985.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1977: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 471 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 45; 11-36, 1987.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1978: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 512 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 46: 316-342, 1987.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1979: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 524 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 48: 18-46, 1987.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1980: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 515 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 50: 127-154, 1988.

Dziewonski, A.M. and J.H. Woodhouse, An experiment in the systematic study of global seismicity: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 201 moderate and large earthquakes of 1981, J. Geophys. Res., 88: 3247-3271, 1983.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1981: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 542 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 50: 155-182, 1988.

Dziewonski, A.M., A. Friedman, D. Giardini and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1982: centroid-moment tensor solutions for 308 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 76-90, 1983.

Dziewonski, A.M., G. Ekström, J.E. Franzen and J.H. Woodhouse, Global seismicity of 1982 and 1983: additional centroid-moment tensor solutions for 553 earthquakes, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 53: 17-45, 1988.