Artigo Revisado por pares

Seismotectonics of the Guinean Earthquake of December 22, 1983

1984; American Geophysical Union; Volume: 11; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1029/gl011i010p00971

ISSN

1944-8007

Autores

C. Dorbath, L. Dorbath, R. Gaulon, T. Neville George, P. Mourgue, Mohamed Ramdani, B. Robineau, Benaissa Tadili,

Tópico(s)

High-pressure geophysics and materials

Resumo

Field geological and seismological investigations conducted after the Guinean earthquake on December 22, 1983 show a shallow dextral strike‐slip fault with a large normal component. The NW‐SE horizontal compressive stress deduced from this event is consistent with measurements made at other places in this region. Old fissures, some of them reactivated during this earthquake, show that this intraplate area constitutes a localized weakness zone in the crust.

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