Crustal deformation in northern Central America |
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| Authors: | Diego Cceres David Monterroso Behrooz Tavakoli |
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| Institution: | aDepartment of Earth Sciences, Seismology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;bDepartamento de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
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| Abstract: | Evaluation of the seismic moment tensor for earthquakes on plate boundary is a standard procedure to determine the relative velocity of plates, which controls the seismic deformation rate predicted from the slip on a single fault. The moment tensor is also decomposed into an isotropic and a deviatoric part to discover the relationship between the average strain rate and the relative velocity between two plates. We utilize this procedure to estimate the rates of deformation in northern Central America where plate boundaries are seismically well defined. Four different tectonic environments are considered for modelling of the plate motions. The deformation rates obtained here compare well with those predicted from the plate motions models and are in good agreement with actual observations. Deformation rates on faults are increasingly being used to estimate earthquake recurrence from information on fault slip rate and more on how we can incorporate our current understanding into seismic hazard analyses. |
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| Keywords: | Central America Crustal deformation Average strain rate Seismic moment tensor summation Seismic strain rate tensor |
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