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| Gràcia, Eulàlia; Grevemeyer, Ingo; Bartolomé, Rafael; Perea, Hector; Martínez-loriente, Sara; Gómez De La Peña, Laura; Villaseñor, Antonio; Klinger, Yann; Lo Iacono, Claudio; Diez, Susana; Calahorrano, Alcinoe; Camafort, Miquel; Costa, Sergio; D’acremont, Elia; Rabaute, Alain; Ranero, César R.. |
| Large continental faults extend for thousands of kilometres to form boundaries between rigid tectonic blocks. These faults are associated with prominent topographic features and can produce large earthquakes. Here we show the first evidence of a major tectonic structure in its initial-stage, the Al-Idrissi Fault System (AIFS), in the Alboran Sea. Combining bathymetric and seismic reflection data, together with seismological analyses of the 2016 Mw 6.4 earthquake offshore Morocco – the largest event ever recorded in the area – we unveil a 3D geometry for the AIFS. We report evidence of left-lateral strike-slip displacement, characterise the fault segmentation and demonstrate that AIFS is the source of the 2016 events. The occurrence of the Mw 6.4 earthquake... |
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| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00513/62427/66705.pdf |
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| Rodriguez, Mathieu; Maleuvre, Clement; Jollivet-castelot, Martin; D'Acremont, Elia; Rabaute, Alain; Lafosse, Manfred; Ercilla, Gemma; Vazquez, Juan-tomas; Alonso, Belen; Ammar, Abdellah; Gorini, Christian. |
| The active Eurasia-Nubia plate boundary runs across the Alboran Sea in theWestern Mediterranean Sea, where the connection between the Atlantic and Mediterranean water masses occurs. Earthquakes above magnitude M-w > 6 may favour the occurrence of landslides within contouritic drifts in the Alboran Sea. A compilation of recent multibeam data reveals for the first time the distribution of slope failures along the Xauen-Tofino banks, in the southern Alboran Sea. Here, we provide a detailed mapping and description of the morphology of eight Holocene landslides, including volume estimations of the failed mass and the related mass transport deposits (MTDs). The most voluminous landslide mobilized similar to 0.5 km(3) of sediment at the initial stage of slope... |
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Palavras-chave: Tsunamis; Submarine landslides; Submarine tectonics and volcanism; Africa. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00474/58560/61118.pdf |
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