Abstract Large earthquakes in North China, Australia, Northwestern Europe, Central and
Eastern United States, and other mid-continents show complex spatiotemporal patterns that …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes three North American examples of earthquake
history inferred from Quaternary geology and discusses earthquakes in the interior of the …

Large earthquakes within stable continental regions (SCR) show that significant amounts of
elastic strain can be released on geological structures far from plate boundary faults, where …

While deformation at the Earth's surface primarily occurs along tectonic plate boundaries,
major earthquakes have shaken regions deep within continental interiors. Three of the …

The spatiotemporal behaviour of earthquakes within continental plate interiors is different
from that at plate boundaries. At plate margins, tectonic motions quickly reload earthquake …

The lithospheric structure of the Southeastern United States is a product of earlier episodes
of continental collision and breakup. The region is located in the interior of the North …

Precise hypocenters (ERH< 0.5 km, ERZ< 1.0 km) of 600 aftershocks (Mw 2.0–5.3) delineate
a east–west trending blind thrust dip** (∼ 45°) towards south (named as North Wagad …

Available geological, geophysical, and seismological data for 39 cases were compared and
analyzed to understand the cause of intraplate earthquakes. The results revealed common …

A common view of continental intraplate seismicity is that large earthquakes occur in areas
where peculiar local conditions favor lower lithospheric strength and/or higher stress …

Continental intraplate regions are characterized by uniform stresses over thousands of
kilometers. Local stresses, with wavelengths of tens to hundreds of kilometers can …