Swptember 2017 by Arthur Snoke (snoke@vt.

edu)

This package contains software for determining and displaying double-couple

earthquake focal mechanisms. Input are polarities (P, SV , SH) and amplitude
ratios (SV/P, SH/P, SV/SH). The main program, Focmec (coded in Fortran 77),
performs an efficient, systematic search of the focal sphere and reports
acceptable solutions based on selection criteria for the number of polarity
errors and errors in amplitude ratios. The search of the focal sphere is
uniform in angle, with selectable step size and bounds. The selection
criteria for both polarities and angles allow adjustment through weightings
for near-nodal solutions. Published applications include determinations of
best-constrained fault-plane solutions for suites of earthquakes recorded at
local to regional distances, analysis of large earthquakes observed at
teleseismic distances, and the use of recorded polarities and relative
amplitudes to produce waveform synthetics.

The package as distributed is a gzipped tar file, focmec.tgz (accompanied by

this README file and a copy of the FOCMEC manual). On Unix, one can both
uncompress and expand this file with a single command:

tar -xzf focmec.tgz

or, if you are using an older version of tar that does not recognize -z,

gzip -d -c focmec.tgz | tar -xf -

This operation produces a directory ./focmec Instructions for building and

testing the package are in HTML format. One starts by opening
./focmec/doc/focmec.html. Included among the links is one to the manual:
./focmec/doc/focmec_manual.pdf.