Active deformation in Ecuador enlightened by a new waveform-based catalog of earthquake focal mechanisms

The recent development of a national seismic broadband network in Ecuador enables us to determine a comprehensive catalog of earthquake focal mechanisms at the country-scale. Using a waveform inversion technique accounting for the spatially variable seismic velocity structure across the country, we provide location, depth, focal mechanism and seismic moment for 282 earthquakes during the 2009–2015 period. Our results are consistent with source...