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| Feuillet, Nathalie; Beauducel, F.; Jacques, E.; Tapponnier, P.; Delouis, B.; Bazin, S.; Vallee, M.; King, G. C. P.. |
| On November 21, 2004, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred offshore, 10 km south of Les Saintes archipelago in Guadeloupe (French West Indies). There were more than 30000 aftershocks recorded in the following two years, most of them at shallow depth near the islands of the archipelago. The main shock and its main aftershock of February 14, 2005 (M-w = 5.8) ruptured a NE-dipping normal fault (Roseau fault), mapped and identified as active from high-resolution bathymetric data a few years before. This fault belongs to an arc-parallel en echelon fault system that follows the inner edge of the northern part of the Lesser Antilles arc, accommodating the sinistral component of oblique convergence between the North American and Caribbean plates. The distribution... |
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| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00200/31099/29511.pdf |
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