Introduction to the Special Section on Earthquakes in Slowly Deforming Mountain Belts and the High Atlas Earthquake of 8 September 2023

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Abstract

Earthquakes in slowly deforming mountain belts result from low‐tectonic loading and occur on individual fault segments. Although most of the significant seismic strain rate concentrates along the plate boundaries, large earthquakes with may still be generated along faults in regions at a distance (≫100 km) from plate boundaries. Intraplate regions, or continental interiors, exhibit active deformation characterized by relatively low tectonic and seismic strain rates (<5 mm/yr; Johnston, 1996), consistent with geodetic strain rates and models of plate motions that predict comparable velocities (Kreemer et al., 2014). Active faults in continental interiors...

Publication Date

2025-09-02

Publication Title

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volume

115

Issue

5

ISSN

0037-1106

Acceptance Date

2025-07-30

Deposit Date

2025-09-12

Embargo Period

2026-09-02

Funding

Part of this research was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, 80NM0018D0004) and supported by NASA Earth Surface and Interior Program.

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1927

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1928

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