Obliquity along plate boundaries

M Philippon, G Corti - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
Most of the plate boundaries are activated obliquely with respect to the direction of far field
stresses, as roughly only 8% of the plate boundaries total length shows a very low obliquity …

Citizen seismology helps decipher the 2021 Haiti earthquake

E Calais, S Symithe, T Monfret, B Delouis, A Lomax… - Science, 2022 - science.org
On 14 August 2021, the moment magnitude (M w) 7.2 Nippes earthquake in Haiti occurred
within the same fault zone as its devastating 2010 M w 7.0 predecessor, but struck the …

A detailed view of the 2020–2023 southwestern Puerto Rico seismic sequence with deep learning

CE Yoon, ES Cochran… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The 2020–2023 southwestern Puerto Rico seismic sequence, still ongoing in
2023, is remarkable for its multiple‐fault rupture complexity and elevated aftershock …

Subduction history of the Caribbean from upper-mantle seismic imaging and plate reconstruction

B Braszus, S Goes, R Allen, A Rietbrock… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The margins of the Caribbean and associated hazards and resources have been shaped by
a poorly understood history of subduction. Using new data, we improve teleseismic P-wave …

Lessons for remote post-earthquake reconnaissance from the 14 August 2021 Haiti earthquake

MRZ Whitworth, G Giardina, C Penney… - Frontiers in Built …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
On 14th August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the
Caribbean nation of Haiti, approximately 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince …

[HTML][HTML] Plate boundary segmentation in the northeastern Caribbean from geodetic measurements and Neogene geological observations

E Calais, S Symithe… - Comptes …, 2016 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé The Caribbean–North America plate boundary in the northeastern Caribbean
shows a remarkable example of along-strike transition from plate boundary–normal …

Petrophysical properties of volcanic rocks and impacts of hydrothermal alteration in the Guadeloupe Archipelago (West Indies)

V Navelot, Y Géraud, A Favier, M Diraison… - Journal of Volcanology …, 2018 - Elsevier
The results of the GEOTREF project presented here aim to develop high enthalpy
geothermal energy in fractured reservoirs. They focus on active volcanic islands, especially …

Rupture Segmentation of the 14 August 2021  7.2 Nippes, Haiti, Earthquake Using Aftershock Relocation from a Local Seismic Deployment

R Douilly, S Paul, T Monfret… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The 14 August 2021 M w 7.2 Haiti earthquake struck 11 yr after the devastating
2010 event within the Enriquillo Plantain Garden (EPG) fault zone in the Southern peninsula …

CCAF-DB: the Caribbean and Central American active fault database

R Styron, J García-Pelaez… - Natural Hazards and …, 2020 - nhess.copernicus.org
A database of∼ 250 active fault traces in the Caribbean and Central American regions has
been assembled to characterize the seismic hazard and tectonics of the area, as part of the …