Estructura cortical y procesos activos en el margen septentrional de La Españolaaplicación a la caracterización de fuentes tsunamigénicas

  1. Rodríguez Zurrunero, Álvaro
Dirigida por:
  1. José Luis Granja Bruña Director
  2. Alfonso Muñoz Martín Director

Universidad de defensa: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 22 de enero de 2021

Tribunal:
  1. Gerardo de Vicente Muñoz Presidente
  2. José Antonio Álvarez Gómez Secretario
  3. José Martín Dávila Vocal
  4. Alberto López Venegas Vocal
  5. Albert Casas Ponsatí Vocal
Departamento:
  1. Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y Paleontología

Tipo: Tesis

Teseo: 155405 DIALNET lock_openDocta Complutense editor

Resumen

The North American (NOAM) plate converges with the Caribbean (CARIB) plate at a rate of 20.0 ± 0.4 mm/yr. towards 254 ± 1°. Plate convergence is highly oblique (20–10°), resulting in a complex crustal boundary with along-strike segmentation, strain partitioning and microplate tectonics. The northern margin of Hispaniola records the oblique collision/underthrusting of the Bahamas Carbonate Province with the island-arc. Due to the collision, northern Hispaniola has suffered several natural disasters caused by major earthquakes and tsunamis, such as the historic earthquake of 1842, thet sunami caused by earthquake-driven slumping in 1918 in the Mona Passage, the seismic crisis of 1943–1953 with five events of M > 7.0 or the seismic crisis of 2003 with amain shock of M6.3 and a large aftershock of M5.3...