Active seismogenic faulting in the Tehran Region, north of Iran; state-of-the-art and future seismic hazard assessment prospects

SS Azad - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
This study summarizes the state-of-the-art investigation into active-seismogenic faulting in
the Tehran Region, and presents new complementary data to provide an overall view on …

Long term fault slip rates, distributed deformation rates and forecast of seismicity in the Iranian Plateau

A Khodaverdian, H Zafarani, M Rahimian - Tectonics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, the long‐term crustal flow of the Iranian Plateau is computed using a kinematic
finite‐element model (NeoKinema software). Based on the iterated weighted least squares …

A global framework for the Earth: putting geological sciences in context

BVW De Vries, P Byrne, A Delcamp, P Einarson… - Global and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
We propose a global framework for the Earth system to facilitate communication between the
geoscience community, the public and policy makers. Geoscience research aims to …

The post‐Eocene evolution of the Doruneh Fault region (central Iran): The intraplate response to the Reorganization of the Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone

M Tadayon, F Rossetti, M Zattin, R Nozaem… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Cenozoic deformation history of Central Iran has been dominantly accommodated by
the activation of major intracontinental strike‐slip fault zones, developed in the hinterland …

Seismicity parameters and spatially smoothed seismicity model for Iran

A Khodaverdian, H Zafarani… - Bulletin of the …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In the present study, seismicity parameters (seismic activity, β‐value, and maximum regional
magnitude) of the Iranian plateau are computed for sites equally distributed all over the …

Present stress map and deformation distribution in the NE Lut block, Eastern Iran: Insights from seismic and geodetic strain and moment rates

A Rashidi, H Kianimehr, F Yamini-Fard, M Tatar… - Pure and Applied …, 2022 - Springer
Geodetic and seismological data are crucial for examining the kinematics and active
tectonics in structural zones. The current tectonic stress field can be inferred from the focal …

Strain rate and stress fields in the West and South Lut block, Iran: Insights from the inversion of focal mechanism and geodetic data

A Rashidi, MM Khatib, F Nilfouroushan, R Derakhshani… - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
The active tectonic deformation and hazardous earthquakes in the south and west of the Lut
block have been investigated for a long time. In this study, we compute the geodetic and …

Coseismic and postseismic displacements from the 1978 Mw 7.3 Tabas-e-Golshan earthquake in eastern Iran

Y Zhou, RT Walker, J Hollingsworth, M Talebian… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
We use optical image correlation of historical aerial photographs, and modern satellite
images to investigate the 1978 M w 7.3 Tabas-e-Golshan thrust earthquake in eastern Iran …

Block rotation, kinematic relations, and block configurations: How do they work in nature?

MR Ghassemi, MR Sheikholeslami, HR Javadi… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rotation of the sets of internally rigid blocks appears in versatile tectonic, structural, and
microstructural settings, and accommodates strain on all different spatial scales. The …

Paleoseismological and morphological evidence of slip rate variations along the North Tabriz fault (NW Iran)

SS Azad, H Philip, S Dominguez, K Hessami… - Tectonophysics, 2015 - Elsevier
Northwest Iran is characterized by a high level of historical and instrumental seismicity
related to the ongoing convergence between the Arabian and Eurasian plates. In this region …