A massive dataset of over 1900 focal mechanisms of crustal earthquakes with M≥ 3.5 in the
Greek region was employed to resolve the contemporary stress-field using a damped least …

Flexure and fracturing of the seafloor on the outer trench wall of subduction zones reflect
bending of the lithosphere beyond its elastic limit. To investigate these inelastic processes …

Earthquakes far from tectonic plate boundaries generally exploit ancient faults, but not all
intraplate faults are equally active. The North American Great Plains exemplify such …

Abstract Knowledge of the local state of stress is critical in appraising intraplate seismic
hazard. Inverting earthquake moment tensors, we demonstrate that principal stress …

Thin plate flexure theory provides an accurate model for the response of the lithosphere to
vertical loads on horizontal length scales ranging from tens to hundreds of kilometres …

The rigid‐plate hypothesis implies that oceanic lithosphere does not contract horizontally as
it cools (hereinafter “rigid plate”). An alternative hypothesis, that vertically averaged …

Earthquake focal mechanisms are often inverted to obtain the deviatoric stress field.
Because shear stress is equal to the frictional strength of the fault at the time of an …

The in situ crustal stress field fundamentally governs, and is affected by, the active tectonic
processes of plate boundary regions, yet questions remain about the characteristics of this …

In Taiwan and other contractional tectonic wedges, there is evidence that the basal
detachment is very weak and the overlying crust is relatively strong. In this study, we …

We perform numerical modelling to simulate the shortening of an oceanic basin and the
adjacent continental margins in order to discuss the relationship between compressional …