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

• Main Authors: Feuillet, Nathalie, Beauducel, François, Tapponnier, Paul
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2012
• 主題: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95658; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8653

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...