China is a country of intense intracontinental seismicity. Most earthquakes in western China occur within the diffuse Indo-Eurasian plate-boundary zone, which extends thousands of kilometers into Asia. Earthquakes in eastern China mainly occur within the North China block, which is part of the Archean Sino-Korean craton that has been thermally rejuvenated since late Mesozoic. Here, we summarize...

T he study of active tectonics is primarily concerned with the deformation of the Earth’s surface. This process results in the growth of mountains, rifting of continents and evolution of the geomorphic landscape. We aim to understand the material properties and processes that control the distribution of strain in the Earth’s crust, from mobile belts to rigid cratons. An important consequence of...

Koločep bay is a 30 km elongated karst basin located between the Elafiti Islands and mainland with NW–SE general direction. The lies within seismically active southern Dalmatia zone. Irregular grid sub-bottom profiles two legacy reflection seismic have been used to determine overall morphology of establish stratigraphy its sedimentary infill. Three major seismic–stratigraphic units identified i...