Seismic hazard impact of the Lower Tagus Valley Fault Zone (SW Iberia) |
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| Authors: | Susana P Vilanova Joao FBD Fonseca |
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| Institution: | (1) Earthquake Engineering and Seismology Division, ICIST, IST, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon, Portugal |
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| Abstract: | The seismic hazard of SW Iberia is composed of two contributions: offshore, large to very large events on the plate boundary between Africa and Eurasia such as the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 or the Gorringe Bank earthquake of 1969; and onshore, moderate to strong intraplate earthquakes on inherited crustal fractures. One of these zones of crustal weakness is the Lower Tagus Valley (LTV) fault zone, which displays the highest level of seismic hazard in Western Iberia. In this paper we review the active tectonics and seismicity of the LTV, integrating previous geophysical data with recent results of paleoseismological investigations, and discuss its impact on the seismic hazard of SW Iberia. We conclude that the seismic zonation for hazard assessment currently in force in the building code is biased towards the scenario of distant offshore rupture, and does not take adequately into account the LTV seismic source. |
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| Keywords: | Lower Tagus Valley active fault intraplate earthquake seismic hazard palaeoseismology |
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