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Mediterranean-Alpine Earthquake Mechanisms and their Seismotectonic Implications

1966; Oxford University Press; Volume: 10; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1365-246x.1966.tb03063.x

1365-246X

Liviu Constantinescu, Libuše Ruprechtová, Diana Enescu,

Landslides and related hazards

A number of seventy-five fault-plane solutions given by the present authors for earthquakes having occurred during the last 50 years in Europe, Asia Minor and Northern Africa and twenty-six solutions due to other authors are studied from the point of view of the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of the faulting process. The main results, entered in Table 1 and plotted on Figs. 12–14, lead to the conclusion that the forces having determined the geomorphology and the tectonics of the different areas of the Mediterranean-Alpine belt have been of the same nature as those continuing to be active at present at the seismic foci of the corresponding areas. Comparing the present results with previous ones, based on a smaller number of earthquakes, (Tables 2 and 3) shows a better agreement of the European pattern of earthquake mechanisms with the world pattern for all earthquakes. Some differences seem, however, to continue to be present between the two patterns in the case of shallower earthquakes.