A_reference_frame

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• Reference Frame Convention

Reference Frame Convention

The code uses the following convention for the Cartesian reference frame:

• the (x) axis points East

• the (y) axis points North

• the (z) axis points up

Note that this convention is different from both the Aki and Richards (1980) convention and the Harvard Centroid-Moment Tensor (CMT) convention. The Aki & Richards convention is

• the (x) axis points North

• the (y) axis points East

• the (z) axis points down

and the Harvard CMT convention is

• the (x) axis points South

• the (y) axis points East

• the (z) axis points up

References

Aki, K., and P. G. Richards. 1980. Quantitative Seismology, Theory and Methods. San Francisco, USA: W. H. Freeman.