Preliminary Report on the 16 October 1999 M 7.1 Hector Mine, California, Earthquake

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The M_w 7.1 Hector Mine, California, earthquake occurred 9:46 GMT on 16 October 1999. The event caused minimal because it was located in a remote, sparsely populated part of the Mojave Desert, approximately 47 miles -southeast of Barstow, with epicentral coordinates 34.59°N 116.27°W and a hypocentral depth of 5 ± 3 km. foreshocks, M 1.9-3.8, preceded the mainshock during previous twelve hours. All of these events were close to the hypocenter of the mainshock.