Hector Perea

Hector Perea

works at the Faculty of Geological Sciences, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is interested in the identification and characterization of active faults, onshore and offshore.

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  • Seismic crisis reveals the growth of a young fault system in the Alboran Sea

    2019-09-05 | Hector Perea in Paper | 2 responses

    Press note related to the publication of the manuscript “Earthquake crisis unveils the growth of an incipient continental fault system” in Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11064-5).

    An international team led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona) demonstrate the growth of a young fault in the Alboran Sea, called the Al-Idrissi Fault System, source of the magnitude (Mw) 6.4 earthquake, which affected Al-Hoceima, Melilla and the south of the Iberian Peninsula in January 2016.

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