Our new paper on lake Ohrid was published in the ZDGG: Reicherter, K., Hoffmann, N., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., Fernandez-Steeger, T.M., Grützner, C., Wiatr, T. 2011. Active basins and neotectonics: morphotectonics of the Lake Ohrid Basin (FYROM and Albania). Z. dt. Ges. Geowiss 162 (2), 217 -234.
Abstract: The Lake Ohrid Basin in FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) and Albania meets all criteria of an active, seismic landscape: linear step-like fault scarps in the landscape and under water within the lake. Post-glacial (or Late Pleistocene) bedrock fault scarps at Lake Ohrid are long-lived expressions of repeated surface faulting in tectonically active regions, where erosion cannot outpace the fault slip. Other morphotectonic features are wind gaps, wineglass-shaped valleys and triangular facets, which are well preserved. Generally, the faults and fault scarps are getting younger towards the basin centre, as depicted on seismic and hydroacoustic profiles. Additionally, mass movement bodies within the lake and also onshore (rockfalls, landslides, sub-aquatic slides, homogenites, turbidites) are likely to have been seismically triggered. These morphotectonic observations are in line with focal mechanisms of earthquakes in the greater Lake Ohrid area. We investigated the neotectonic history and tectonic geomorphology of the Lake Ohrid Basin by means of an integrated multidisciplinary approach, using tectonic geomorphology and a variety of geophysical and remote sensing methods. Download the paper here.
The latest issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America has also some interesting papers:
- Surface Faulting of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L’Aquila Earthquake in Central Italy. Eutizio Vittori, Pio Di Manna, Anna M. Blumetti, Valerio Comerci, Luca Guerrieri, Eliana Esposito, Alessandro M. Michetti, Sabina Porfido, Luigi Piccardi, Gerald P. Roberts, Andrea Berlusconi, Franz Livio, Giancanio Sileo, Max Wilkinson, Kenneth J. W. McCaffrey, Richard J. Phillips and Patience A. Cowie
- Proximity to Past Earthquakes as a Least-Astonishing Hypothesis for Forecasting Locations of Future Earthquakes. Alan L. Kafka and John E. Ebel
- Spatiotemporal Earthquake Clusters along the North Anatolian Fault Zone Offshore Istanbul. Fatih Bulu, William L. Ellsworth, Marco Bohnhoff, Mustafa Aktar and Georg Dresen
- Felt Intensity versus Instrumental Ground Motion: A Difference between California and Eastern North America? Donny T. Dangkua and Chris H. Cramer
- Seismic Hazard Assessment (2003-2009) for the Italian Building Code. Massimiliano Stucchi, Carlo Meletti, Valentina Montaldo, Helen Crowley, Gian Michele Calvi and Enzo Boschi
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