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Earthquake Faulting and Their Implications for the Seismic Hazard Assessment Along the Plate Boundary in North Africa

Author : Mustapha Meghraoui

Published in: Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The seismotectonics of North Africa suggest a kinematic model with transpression and block rotation for the NW regions and with rifting in the NE regions that illustrate the mechanics of the Africa–Eurasia convergence.

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Title: Earthquake Faulting and Their Implications for the Seismic Hazard Assessment Along the Plate Boundary in North Africa
Author: Mustapha Meghraoui
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Recent Advances in Environmental Science from the Euro-Mediterranean and Surrounding Regions
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-70547-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-70548-4

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70548-4_15