The North Maladeta Fault (Spanish Central Pyrenees) as the Vielha 1923 earthquake seismic source: Recent activity revealed by geomorphological and geophysical research

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 246-262

  Ortuno M ^a   Queralt, P ^a   Marti A ^a   Ledo, J ^a   Masana, E ^a   Perea, H ^b   Santanach, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

1923 Vielha earthquake; Audiomagnetotellurics; Neotectonics; North Maladeta Fault; Pyrenees

Indexed keywords

AUDIOMAGNETOTELLURIC SOUNDING; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PENEPLAIN; SEISMIC SOURCE; SLIP RATE; THRUST FAULT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 44649142562     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.06.016     Document Type: Article

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