Tectonic context of moderate to large historical earthquakes in the lesser Antilles and mechanical coupling with volcanoes

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Feuillet, Nathalie, Beauducel, François, Tapponnier, Paul
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95658; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8653
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The oblique convergence between North American and Caribbean plates is accommodated in a bookshelf faulting manner by active, oblique-normal faults in the northern part of the Lesser Antilles arc. In the last 20 years, two M > 6 earthquakes occurred along a large, arc parallel, en echelon fault s...