Evidence for active strike-slip faulting along the Eurasia-Africa convergence zone: Implications for seismic hazard in the southwest Iberian margin

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 495-498

  Bartolome, Rafael ^a   Gràcia, Eulàlia ^a   Stich, Daniel ^b   Martínez Loriente, Sara ^a   Klaeschen, Dirk ^c   de Lis Mancilla, Flor ^b   Lo Iacono, Claudio ^a   Dañobeitia, Juan José ^a   Zitellini, Nevio ^d  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTING; COASTAL AREA; CONVERGENCE ZONES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; FAULT PLANES; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEA FLOOR; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC IMAGING; SEISMIC MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC PARAMETERS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOPE FAILURE; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; SUBBOTTOM PROFILERS; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; UPPER MANTLE;

COASTAL ZONES; FAULTING; SLOPE STABILITY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; BATHYMETRY; COASTAL ZONE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; LINEAMENT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PLATE TECTONICS; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOPE FAILURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TSUNAMI;

AFRICA; EURASIA; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 84862119131     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33107.1     Document Type: Article

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