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Source Mechanism and Seismotectonics

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Agustín Udías

    1. Departamento de Geofísica Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Complutense Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Elisa Buforn

    1. Departamento de Geofísica Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Complutense Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Madrid, Spain

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-370
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  2. Introduction

    • Raúl Madariaga, Agustín Udías
    Pages 371-374

  3. Intermediate and Deep Earthquakes in Spain

    • E. Buforn, A. Udías, R. Madariaga
    Pages 375-393

  4. Spanish National Strong Motion Network. Recording of the Huelva Earthquake of 20 December, 1989

    • E. Carreño, J. Rueda, C. López Casado, J. Galán, J. A. Peláez
    Pages 395-404

  5. Regional Focal Mechanisms for Earthquakes in the Aegean Area

    • B. Papazachos, A. Kiratzi, E. Papadimitriou
    Pages 405-420

  6. Rates of Crustal Deformation in the North Aegean Trough-North Anatolian Fault Deduced from Seismicity

    • Anastasia A. Kiratzi
    Pages 421-432

  7. Regional Stresses Along the Eurasia-Africa Plate Boundary Derived from Focal Mechanisms of Large Earthquakes

    • Agustín Udías, Elisa Buforn
    Pages 433-448

  8. Focal Mechanisms of Intraplate Earthquakes in Bolivia, South America

    • A. Vega, E. Buforn
    Pages 449-458

  9. Partial Breaking of a Mature Seismic Gap: The 1987 Earthquakes in New Britain

    • R. Dmowska, L. C. Lovison-Golob, J. J. Durek
    Pages 459-477

  10. Size of Earthquakes in Southern Mexico from Indirect Methods

    • José A. Canas
    Pages 479-498

  11. Numerical Simulation of the Earthquake Generation Process

    • Mircea Radulian, Cezar-Ioan Trifu, Florin Octavian CăRbunar
    Pages 499-514

  12. Intermagnitude Relationships and Asperity Statistics

    • A. A. Gusev
    Pages 515-527

  13. Complete Synthetic Seismograms for High-Frequency Multimode SH-waves

    • N. Florsch, D. Fäh, P. Suhadolc, G. F. Panza
    Pages 529-560

  14. Body-Wave Dispersion: Measurement and Interpretation

    • Antoni M. Correig
    Pages 561-576

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 577-578
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nesus, Armenia, and Georgia have largely profited from the experience acquired in the study of the large events of the early 1980s. The Mediterranean region is not only the site of shallow dispersed seismic activity, it is also the site of localized intermediate depth seismic activity, and of some rare deeper events. Active subduc­ tion is clearly at the origin of Greek intermediate depth seismicity, while the deep activity under Calabria and the Vrancea region in Romania is clearly related to downgoing slabs that have long remained active after the arrest of subduction. The origin of the intermediate and very deep seismicity below Spain is a considerably more complex problem. Several possible explanations of the intermediate depth activity to about 110 km have been proposed, but the origin of the deep (650 km) events studied by BURFORN et a1. remains a mystery since this is the only source of deep activity that is not related in an obvious way to a subduction zone. The problem of seismic source mechanism and seismotectonics cannot be completely separated from that of the mechanical origin of earthquakes. Recent work on this subject has revealed the intimate relation between fault geometry, as observed by field geologists, and the results of inversion of source process from seismic data in the far-field or in the near-field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Geofísica Ciudad Universitaria, Universidad Complutense Facultad de Ciencias Físicas, Madrid, Spain

    Agustín Udías, Elisa Buforn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Source Mechanism and Seismotectonics

  • Editors: Agustín Udías, Elisa Buforn

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8654-3

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-2709-5Published: 01 December 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9718-1Published: 07 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8654-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: V, 210

  • Topics: Geology

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