Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean

C Faccenna, TW Becker, L Auer, A Billi… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The Mediterranean offers a unique opportunity to study the driving forces of tectonic
deformation within a complex mobile belt. Lithospheric dynamics are affected by slab …

Present-day kinematics of the Mediterranean: A comprehensive overview of GPS results

JM Nocquet - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
I combine recently published GPS results to derive a geodetic horizontal velocity field
consistent at the scale of the Mediterranean and the surrounding Alpine belts. The velocity …

The 2016 central Italy seismic sequence: A first look at the mainshocks, aftershocks, and source models

L Chiaraluce, R Di Stefano, E Tinti… - Seismological …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The 2016 central Italy seismic sequence consists so far of a series of moderate‐to‐large
earthquakes activating within a few months along a 60‐km‐long and Apenninic‐trending …

A geodetic plate motion and Global Strain Rate Model

C Kreemer, G Blewitt, EC Klein - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a new global model of plate motions and strain rates in plate boundary zones
constrained by horizontal geodetic velocities. This Global Strain Rate Model (GSRM v. 2.1) …

Vertical GPS ground motion rates in the Euro‐Mediterranean region: New evidence of velocity gradients at different spatial scales along the Nubia‐Eurasia plate …

E Serpelloni, C Faccenna, G Spada… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We use 2.5 to 14 years long position time series from> 800 continuous Global
Positioning System (GPS) stations to study vertical deformation rates in the Euro …

Kinematics of the Western Africa-Eurasia plate boundary from focal mechanisms and GPS data

E Serpelloni, G Vannucci, S Pondrelli… - Geophysical Journal …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Summary The Western Mediterranean displays a complex pattern of crustal deformation
distributed along tectonically active belts developed in the framework of slow oblique plate …

The Italian CMT dataset from 1977 to the present

S Pondrelli, S Salimbeni, G Ekström, A Morelli… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2006 - Elsevier
The INGV-Harvard European-Mediterranean Regional Centroid Moment Tensor (RCMT)
Catalog collects solutions routinely computed since 1997 for earthquakes with moderate …

The Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS), version 3: summarizing 20 years of research on Italy's earthquake geology

R Basili, G Valensise, P Vannoli, P Burrato, U Fracassi… - Tectonophysics, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper describes the main characteristics, the evolution, and the structure of the
Database of Individual Seismogenic Sources (DISS) and particularly of its release of early …

Active tectonics of the Adriatic region from GPS and earthquake slip vectors

N D'agostino, A Avallone, D Cheloni… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the kinematics of the Adriatic region, we integrate continuous and episodic
GPS measurements with Mw> 4.5 earthquake slip vectors selected from the Regional …

Evidence of large scale deformation patterns from GPS data in the Italian subduction boundary

R Devoti, A Esposito, G Pietrantonio, AR Pisani… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
We present the velocity field in Italy derived from over 300 continuous GPS stations operated
in the 1998–2009 time span. The GPS network maps the whole country with a mean inter …