Based on gravity and bathymetric data and using a novel two-dimensional joint flexural- density modeling approach, this work studies the physical properties of the oceanic Nazca …
For more than two decades, Chile's National Seismological Center has produced a seismic catalog built by manual reading of first‐arrival P and S waves recorded by local and regional …
FA González, JP Bello-González… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
Seismic investigations and scientific ocean drilling projects have documented a remarkable degree of geologic heterogeneity in marine forearc basins in convergent margins worldwide …
The subduction of seamounts and basement ridges affects the structure, morphology, and physical state of a convergent margin. To evaluate their impact on the seismo-tectonic …
I Storch, S Buske, P Victor, O Oncken - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Summary Along the Northern Chilean active continental margin, the subducting Nazca plate is characterized by a rough sea floor topography that has been suggested to control the …
E Contreras-Reyes, F Orellana-Rovirosa… - … of the Earth, Parts A/B/C, 2024 - Elsevier
The Nazca plate is populated with several magmatic tracks exhibiting complex morphologies responding to time-dependent positioning of spreading centers (East Pacific …
In addition to the largest documented earthquake, the Mw 9.5 Valdivia earthquake of 1960, the Chilean subduction zone has experienced three great (> Mw 8) earthquakes since 2010 …
Two segments of subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate occur at low angles based on seismic hypocenter locations, approaching nearly horizontal below …
RH Pilger Jr - Andean geology, 2024 - SciELO Chile
Two segments of subduction of the Nazca plate beneath the South American plate occur at low angles based on seismic hypocenter locations, approaching nearly horizontal below …