MOZZICONACCI , L.

We present a modified version of the FMNEAR method for determining the focal mechanisms and fault plane geometries of small earthquakes. Our improvements allow determination of the fault plane and dimensions using the near-field components of only a few local records. The limiting factor is the number of stations: a minimum of five to six...

The Taiwanese orogen is the result of the active and vigorous collision between the Eurasian and the Philippine Sea plates. In this strong convergence context, a one month-long earthquake sequence composed of two mainshocks of magnitude 6 occurred in April 2006 in the Taitung area. The first mainshock (T1) mobilized a structure just west to the...

On 1 April 2006, the Taitung earthquake (Mw 6.1) occurred in Taiwan at the boundary between the Philippine Sea and Eurasian plates, where high convergence rates contributed to the development of Plio‐Pleistocene orogeny in the region. From the joint inversion of seismic and geodetic data, we identified the event's fault geometry and...

The Taiwanese orogen is the result of the active and vigorous collision between the Eurasian and the Philippine Sea plates. In this strong convergence context, a one month-long earthquake sequence composed of two mainshocks of magnitude 6 occurred in April 2006 in the Taitung area. The first mainshock (T1) mobilized a structure just west to the...

The 2003 Chengkung earthquake (Mw 6.8) occurred on the east-dipping Chihshang fault of eastern Taiwan, a listric fault with dominant reverse motion. A joint inversion taking into account geodetic (GPS) and seismological (accelerometric and teleseismic) data is performed. This modelling highlights the rupture process behaviour on the fault plane...

A new interpretation is proposed for the 2010 Jia-Shian earthquake (Mw 6.2) which occurred on March 4, 2010 in southwestern Taiwan. Among the few tens of CGPS stations which recorded the mainshock at a distance less than 50 km we identified a few stations displaying horizontal displacements in disagreement with the dominant pattern of...

Tectonophysics, v. 466, n. 3-4, p. 409-426, Tectonophysics, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.003