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

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

Universidade de defensa: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 22 de xaneiro de 2021

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

Tipo: Tese

Resumo

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...