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The Strait of Messina: Seismotectonics and the source of the 1908 earthquake
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In this paper, a new dataset of sub-seafloor geophysical soundings with unprecedented resolution, relocated seismicity, and Vp model, together with morphotectonic investigations and inverse modelling of available levelling data, provide additional constraints on the deformation mechanisms and seismotectonics of the Strait of Messina area.About:
This article is published in Earth-Science Reviews.The article was published on 2021-07-01. It has received 24 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Seismotectonics & Discontinuity (geotechnical engineering).read more
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Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean
TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual and quantitative framework for the causes of surface deformation in the Mediterranean is discussed, which can be outlined by two, almost symmetric, upper mantle convection cells.
Slab narrowing in central Mediterranean: the Calabro-Ionian subduction zone as imaged by high resolution seismic tomography
Luciano Scarfì,Graziella Barberi,Giovanni Barreca,Flavio Cannavò,Ivan Koulakov,Domenico Patanè +5 more
TL;DR: A detailed 3D image of the Calabro-Ionian subduction system in the central Mediterranean was obtained by means of a seismic tomography, exploiting a large dataset of local earthquakes and computing algorithms able to build a dense grid of measure nodes.
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Out of phase Quaternary uplift-rate changes reveal normal fault interaction, implied by deformed marine palaeoshorelines
Marco Meschis,Gerald P. Roberts,Jennifer Robertson,Z. K. Mildon,Diana Sahy,Rajasmita Goswami,Claudia Sgambato,J. Faure Walker,Am Michetti,Francesco Iezzi +9 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors mapped and constrained the timing of tectonically deformed uplifted Late Quaternary palaeoshorelines in the Messina Strait, southern Italy, an area above a subduction zone containing active normal faults.
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Recent Seismicity in the Area of the Major, 1908 Messina Straits Earthquake, South Italy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used waveform inversion focal mechanisms of recent, shallow earthquakes of the Messina Straits to obtain the following main results: (i) seismicity has occurred below the east-dipping north-striking fault proposed by most investigators as the source of the 1908, magnitude 7.1 Messina earthquake, while it has been substantially absent in correspondence of the fault and above it; (ii) earthquake locations and related strain space distributions do not exhibit well defined trends reflecting specific faults but they mark the existence of seismogenic rock volumes below the 1908
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New evidence of mis 3 relative sea level changes from the Messina strait, Calabria (Italy)
Fabrizio Antonioli,Lucio Calcagnile,Luigi Ferranti,Giuseppe Mastronuzzi,Carmelo Monaco,Carmelo Monaco,Paolo Orrù,Gianluca Quarta,Fabrizio Pepe,Giovanni Scardino,Giovanni Scicchitano,Paolo Stocchi,Marco Taviani,Marco Taviani,Marco Taviani +14 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe new fossiliferous marine deposits overlaying the metamorphic bedrock at Cannitello (Calabria, Italy) and indicate that these deposits, presently between 28 and 30 m above sea level, formed during MIS 3.1.
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