3.1.  The 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora Earthquake, Structural Analysis of the Surface Rupture

Surface rupture (white ribbon) along the central part of the Pitáycachi rupture segment, seen from the WNW

Surface rupture map, measurements of structural and morphological surface deformation, rupture kinematics inferred from surface rupture branching

Suter, M., Rupture of the Pitáycachi fault in the 1887 Mw 7.5 Sonora, Mexico earthquake (southern Basin-and-Range Province): Rupture kinematics and epicenter inferred from rupture branching patterns: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 120, p. 617-641. 

Online at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Max_Suter

Suter, M., Structural configuration of the Otates fault (southern Basin-and-Range Province) and its rupture in the 3 May 1887 Mw = 7.5 Sonora, Mexico earthquake: Seismological Society of America Bulletin, v. 98, p. 2879-2893, 2008. 

2008 BSSA - Otates.pdf

Electronic appendix including a color-coded elevation model showing the 1887 rupture trace; a satellite image showing the major Basin and Range Province normal faults of the study area; a color version of the geologic map showing the rupture trace of the 1887 earthquake along the Otates fault; and several additional photographs of the 1887 rupture scarp, 

online at: http://www.seismosoc.org/publications/BSSA_html/bssa_98-6/2008129-esupp/.

Suter, M., 2008, Structural configuration of the Teras fault (southern Basin-and-Range Province) and its rupture in the 3 May 1887 Mw = 7.5 Sonora, Mexico earthquake: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, v. 25, p. 179-195.

online at: http://rmcg.geociencias.unam.mx/index.php/rmcg/article/view/680.