Special Volume published: Submarine Active Faults – From Regional Observations to Seismic Hazard Characterization

A new special issue has been published in Frontiers. While most of paleoseismological studies deal with onshore faults for obvious reasons, this collection of 15 studies is all about offshore faults. The papers are of course full of wonderful high-resolution bathymetry data and shallow seismic profiles, but they also deal with the important question of how to implement these data into seismic hazard assessments and how to deal with the patchy fault information. The study areas cover marine settings and lacustrine environments.

Contents

• Perea, H., Martinez-Loriente, S., Maloney, J., Maesano, F. E., & Vannucchi, P. (2021). Editorial: Submarine Active Faults: From Regional Observations to Seismic Hazard Characterization. Frontiers in Earth Science.
• Coudurier-Curveur, A., Singh, S. C., & Deighton, I. (2021). Timor Collision Front Segmentation Reveals Potential for Great Earthquakes in the Western Outer Banda Arc, Eastern Indonesia. Frontiers in Earth Science.
• Singleton, D. M., Maloney, J. M., Brothers, D. S., Klotsko, S., Driscoll, N. W., & Rockwell, T. K. (2021). Recency of faulting and subsurface architecture of the San Diego Bay pull-apart basin, California, USA. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 305.
• Fernández-Viejo, G., Llana-Fúnez, S., Acevedo, J., & López-Fernández, C. (2021). The Cantabrian Fault at sea. Low magnitude seismicity and its significance within a stable setting. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 180.
• Tendero-Salmerón, V., Lafosse, M., D’acremont, E., Rabaute, A., Azzouz, O., Ercilla, G., … & Galindo-Zaldivar, J. (2021). Application of Automated Throw Backstripping Method to Characterize Recent Faulting Activity Migration in the Al Hoceima Bay (Northeast Morocco): Geodynamic Implications. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9.
• Holmes, J. J., Perea, H., Driscoll, N. W., & Kent, G. M. (2021). Revealing geometry and fault interaction on a complex structural system based on 3D P-Cable data: The San Mateo and San Onofre Trends, Offshore Southern California. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 951.
• Somoza, L., Medialdea, T., Terrinha, P., Ramos, A., & Vázquez, J. T. (2021). Submarine active faults and morpho-tectonics around the Iberian Margins: seismic and tsunamis hazards. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 519.
• Holmes, J. J., Driscoll, N. W., & Kent, G. M. (2021). High-Resolution 3D Seismic Imaging of Fault Interaction and Deformation Offshore San Onofre, California. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 324.
• Perea, H., Ucarkus, G., Driscoll, N., Kent, G., Levy, Y., & Rockwell, T. (2021). Faulting and Folding of the Transgressive Surface Offshore Ventura Records Deformational Events in the Holocene. Frontiers in Earth Science.
• Panara, Y., Maesano, F. E., Amadori, C., Fedorik, J., Toscani, G., & Basili, R. (2021). Probabilistic Assessment of Slip Rates and Their Variability Over Time of Offshore Buried Thrusts: A Case Study in the Northern Adriatic Sea. Frontiers in Earth Science.
• Fabbri, S. C., Affentranger, C., Krastel, S., Lindhorst, K., Wessels, M., Madritsch, H., … & Anselmetti, F. S. (2021). Active faulting in Lake Constance (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) unraveled by multi-vintage reflection seismic data. Frontiers in Earth Science, 674.
• Corradino, M., Pepe, F., Burrato, P., Kanari, M., Parrino, N., Bertotti, G., … & Tibor, G. (2021). An Integrated Multiscale Method for the Characterisation of Active Faults in Offshore Areas. The Case of Sant’Eufemia Gulf (Offshore Calabria, Italy). Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 476.
• Oswald, P., Moernaut, J., Fabbri, S. C., De Batist, M., Hajdas, I., Ortner, H., … & Strasser, M. (2021). Combined on-fault and off-fault paleoseismic evidence in the postglacial infill of the inner-alpine lake Achensee (Austria, Eastern Alps). Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 438.
• Leffondré, P., Déverchère, J., Medaouri, M., Klingelhoefer, F., Graindorge, D., & Arab, M. (2021). Ongoing inversion of a passive margin: Spatial variability of strain markers along the Algerian margin and basin (Mediterranean Sea) and seismotectonic implications. Frontiers in Earth Science, 365.
• Park, J. O., Tsuru, T., Fujie, G., Jamali Hondori, E., Kagoshima, T., Takahata, N., … & Sano, Y. (2021). Seismic Reflection Images of Possible Mantle-Fluid Conduits and Basal Erosion in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Rupture Area. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 529.

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