Probabilistic earthquake location in 3D and layered models: Introduction of a Metropolis-Gibbs method and comparison with linear locations

A Lomax, J Virieux, P Volant… - Advances in seismic event …, 2000 - Springer
Probabilistic earthquake location with non-linear, global search methods allows the use of
3D models and produces comprehensive uncertainty and resolution information …

[PDF][PDF] Earthquake location, direct, global-search methods

A Lomax, A Michelini, A Curtis… - … of complexity and …, 2009 - geos.ed.ac.uk
Most commonly, an earthquake location is determined using observed seismic-phase arrival-
times and associated uncertainties, and predicted travel times in a given wavespeed model …

[PDF][PDF] 44. The origin and tectonic history of the Alboran Basin: insights from Leg 161 results

MC Comas, JP Platt, JI Soto… - Proceedings of the ocean …, 1999 - researchgate.net
ABSTRACT The Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 161 drilled in the Western
Mediterranean Sea (May–June, 1995) to investigate outstanding processes in the origin and …

Kinematics of the Iberia–Maghreb plate contact from seismic moment tensors and GPS observations

D Stich, E Serpelloni, F de Lis Mancilla, J Morales - Tectonophysics, 2006 - Elsevier
The Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb experience moderate earthquake activity and
oblique,∼ NW–SE convergence between Africa and Eurasia at a rate of∼ 5 mm/yr. Coeval …

Seismic sources on the Iberia-African plate boundary and their tectonic implications

E Buforn, M Bezzeghoud, A UdÍas, C Pro - Pure and applied geophysics, 2004 - Springer
The plate boundary between Iberia and Africa has been studied using data on seismicity
and focal mechanisms. The region has been divided into three areas: A; the Gulf of Cadiz; B …

Active tectonics of the western Mediterranean: Geodetic evidence for rollback of a delaminated subcontinental lithospheric slab beneath the Rif Mountains, Morocco

A Fadil, P Vernant, S McClusky, R Reilinger… - …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Surface deformation in Morocco, derived from five years of global positioning system (GPS)
survey observations of a 22-station network, four continuously recording GPS (CGPS) …

Source parameters of the 1992 Melilla (Spain, MW = 4.8), 1994 Alhoceima (Morocco, MW = 5.8), and 1994 Mascara (Algeria, MW = 5.7) earthquakes and …

M Bezzeghoud, E Buforn - Bulletin of the Seismological …, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Source mechanisms of the Melilla, Alhoceima, and Mascara earthquakes, including fault-
plane solutions, waveform modeling, and spectral analysis, are presented. Strike-slip …

Recent tectonic reorganization of the Nubia-Eurasia convergent boundary heading for the closure of the western Mediterranean

A Billi, C Faccenna, O Bellier… - Bulletin de la …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the western Mediterranean area, after a long period (late Paleogene-Neogene) of Nubian
(W-Africa) northward subduction beneath Eurasia, subduction has almost ceased, as well as …

Geodetic constraints on active tectonics of the Western Mediterranean: Implications for the kinematics and dynamics of the Nubia-Eurasia plate boundary zone

P Vernant, A Fadil, T Mourabit, D Ouazar, A Koulali… - Journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
We present GPS observations in Morocco and adjacent areas of Spain from 15 continuous
(CGPS) and 31 survey-mode (SGPS) sites extending from the stable part of the Nubian plate …

Recent and present‐day stresses in the Granada Basin (Betic Cordilleras): Example of a late Miocene‐present‐day extensional basin in a convergent plate boundary

J Galindo‐Zaldívar, A Jabaloy, I Serrano, J Morales… - …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The diffuse convergent boundary between the Eurasian and African plates in the western
Mediterranean is associated with a seismicity zone more than 300 km wide. Although the …