Determining the relationship between crustal movement and faulting in thrust belts is essential for understanding the growth of geological structures and addressing the proposed models of a potential earthquake hazard. A Mw 5.9 earthquake occurred on 21 January 2016 in Menyuan, NE Qinghai Tibetan plateau. We combined satellite interferometry from Sentinel-1A Terrain Observation with Progressive...

-While most aspects of subduction have been extensively studied, the process of subduction initiation lacks an observational foundation. The Macquarie Ridge complex (MRC) forms the Pacific-Australia plate boundary between New Zealand to the north and the Pacific-Australia-Antarctica triple junction to the south. The MRC consists of alternating troughs and rises and is characterized by a transit...

The Barkol Tagh and Karlik Tagh ranges of the easternmost Tien Shan are a natural laboratory for studying the fault architecture of an active termination zone of a major intracontinental mountain range. Barkol and Karlik Tagh and lesser ranges to the north are bounded by active thrust faults that locally deform Quaternary sediments. Major thrusts in Karlik Tagh connect along strike to the east ...

The September 21, 1999, Mw 7.6 Chichi earthquake destroyed several thousand buildings and caused more than 2000 fatalities in central Taiwan. The earthquake occurred along the Chelungpu fault, a thrust fault on the western flank of the Taiwan fold-andthrust belt. The surface rupture was more than 90 km long, and vertical displacements ranged from 3 to 8 m. Although pre-existing scarps were iden...

Abstract Several orogenic belts exhibit regional-scale anticlines characterized by prominent faults in their crestal/forelimb zone. These are also a common feature the Neogene fold-and-thrust belt of Apennines, where they have been contrastingly interpreted as younger-on-older thrust faults, large-scale strike-slip and pre- or syn-thrusting normal faults. In this study, we analysed NW–SE-trendi...

The Rioni foreland fold-and-thrust belt is part of the Greater Caucasus pro-wedge and one most important examples collision-driven far-field deformation Arabia-Eurasia convergence zone. Here we show structural style based on seismic reflection profiles regional balanced cross-section. main within represented by a set fault-propagation folds, duplexes, triangle cross-section shows that folds abo...