F.R. Zúñiga

Natural Stone Mosaic , West Wall National Library, Juan O´Gorman.

Identifying several events in the paleorecord.

Details about my Interests.

My research has led me to try to delve into the complex phenomena that triggers an earthquake. For my analyses I consider relations which deal with chaotic (stochastic) or deterministic phenomena. 

Currently I'm also focused on studies of seismotectonics in central Mexico with emphasis on determining the seismic hazard. For this purpose I use different analysis methods, for example anisotropic propagation studies, the generation of high frequency seismic energy, seismicity patterns and seismic modeling,  and paleoseismological studies. Another of my interests is the assessment of natural seismicity variations and discrimination of those produced by errors in detection, location, magnitude calculation, etc.. I have developed different analytical techniques for this purpose. Many of these were in a package of subroutines called ZMAP, in collaboration with Stefan Wiemer of ETH Zurich and other colleagues. Within these areas my work also attempts to identify possible mechanisms of anticipation of macroseismic phenomena (called precursors) and investigate their occurrence in different areas and under different circumstances, excluding the possibility of random error.