SOLIS GORDILLO , G.

New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands are located in the southwest region of the Pacific ocean in the highly seismogenic southern Vanuatu subduction zone and therefore may be subject to devastating local tsunamis. Over the past 150 years, two large tsunamis were triggered by major earthquakes on March 28th 1875 and September 20th 1920. In this study,...

The North-Andean subduction zone generates recurrent tsunamigenic earthquakes. The seismicity is usually considered to be segmented because of different specific morphological features of the Nazca Plate driving the subduction motion. Most of the recent powerful earthquakes in the margin were located in its northern part. To the south, the...

The devastating April 16, 2016, Pedernales, Ecuador, Mw 7.8 earthquake was among a sequence of ruptures that occurred along the seismically segmented North Andean subduction zone. It caused 700 fatalities, and more than 7,000 people were injured. The magnitude and location of it were similar to those of the May 14, 1942, earthquake, relaxing...