Seismic structure and activity of the north-central Lesser Antilles subduction zone from an integrated approach: Similarities with the Tohoku forearc

M Laigle, A Hirn, M Sapin, A Bécel, P Charvis, E Flueh… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The 300-km-long north-central segment of the Lesser Antilles subduction zone,
including Martinique and Guadeloupe islands has been the target of a specific approach to …

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

N Feuillet, F Beauducel… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Tsunami hazard in the Caribbean: Regional exposure derived from credible worst case scenarios

CB Harbitz, S Glimsdal, S Bazin, N Zamora… - Continental Shelf …, 2012 - Elsevier
The present study documents a high tsunami hazard in the Caribbean region, with several
thousands of lives lost in tsunamis and associated earthquakes since the XIXth century …

Multiscale map** of completeness magnitude of earthquake catalogs

I Vorobieva, C Narteau, P Shebalin… - Bulletin of the …, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We propose a multiscale method to map the spatial variations of the completeness
magnitude M c of earthquake catalogs. The Gutenberg–Richter law describing the …

Seafloor earthquake ruptures and mass wasting from the 2004 Mw 6.3 Les Saintes submarine earthquake

A Hughes, J Escartín, J Billant, F Leclerc… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The seismic hazard posed by submarine faults and the capacity of submarine earthquakes
to trigger mass wasting are poorly understood because we lack detailed characterizations of …

Water, oceanic fracture zones and the lubrication of subducting plate boundaries—insights from seismicity

D Schlaphorst, JM Kendall, JS Collier… - Geophysical Journal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We investigate the relationship between subduction processes and related seismicity for the
Lesser Antilles Arc using the Gutenberg–Richter law. This power law describes the …

The Mw= 6.3, November 21, 2004, Les Saintes earthquake (Guadeloupe): Tectonic setting, slip model and static stress changes

N Feuillet, F Beauducel, E Jacques… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment at the Eastern Caribbean Islands

F Bozzoni, M Corigliano, CG Lai… - Bulletin of the …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A probabilistic seismic hazard analysis has been performed to compute probabilistic seismic
hazard maps for the eastern Caribbean region (10 N–19 N, 59 W–64 W), which includes in …

New moment magnitude scale, evidence of stress drop magnitude scaling and stochastic ground motion model for the French West Indies

S Drouet, MP Bouin, F Cotton - Geophysical Journal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
In this study we analyse records from the 'Les Saintes' seismic sequence following the M w=
6.3 earthquake of 2004 November 11, which occurred close to Guadeloupe (French West …

The 2004–2005 Les Saintes (French West Indies) seismic aftershock sequence observed with ocean bottom seismometers

S Bazin, N Feuillet, C Duclos, W Crawford… - Tectonophysics, 2010 - Elsevier
On November 21, 2004 an Mw6. 3 intraplate earthquake occurred at sea in the French
Caribbean. The aftershock sequence continues to this day and is the most extensive …