The present day seismic activity from a region reflects the active tectonics and can confirm the seismic potential of the seismogenic sources as they are modelled using the historical seismicity. This paper makes a comparative analysis of the last decade seismicity recorded in the Banat Seismic Region (western part of Romania) and the historical seismicity of the region (Mw≥4.0). Four significa...

Abstract Seismic data of earthquakes recorded during the last 40 years in southern Calabria have been compared with geological order to obtain a seismotectonic picture area. We sought for any possible correlation between main regional tectonic structures, distribution earthquake hypocentres and focal mechanism magnitude (Ml)≥3. Studies historical recent seismicity analysis structures allowed de...

SUMMARY The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a 700-km-long left-lateral transform fault located between the and Arabian plates. proximity of Euler Pole to Arabia–Anatolia Plate boundary leads rapid changes in plate velocity along boundary, which manifested by decreasing slip rates from east (10 mm yr–1) west (?1–4 yr–1). EAF displays heterogeneous seismicity patterns with seismic gaps, localized c...

Earthquakes in India are caused by the release of elastic strain energy created and replenished by the stresses resulting from India’s collision with Asia. Accumulating strain distorts the surface of the Indian plate, which despite its slow development can now be detected using precision geodesy. The largest and most severe earthquakes occur on the boundaries of the Indian plate to the east, no...

this paper shows how multifractal analysis can be used to characterize the spatial distribution of epicenters in the zagros and alborz-kopeh dagh regions of iran. the main multifractal characteristics, dq, f(αq), τq, αq and a set of multifractal parameters defined from the shape of the f(αq)-spectrum including the width of f(αq)-spectrum, nonuniformity factor, combined parameter, coefficients o...