Active Faulting and Seismicity—2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

The relationship between active faulting and seismicity has been investigated mainly since the 1980s, when large earthquakes of magnitude >6 re-activated neotectonic faults with measurable displacements on the fault planes. Soon after, empirical relationships were elaborated between the earthquake magnitude and the fault length or the fault throw. Several dating techniques, such as trenching, Cl36 dating, etc., have resulted in the estimation of throw rate or slip rate on each fault. The correlation of slip rates with uplift/subsidence rates, erosion rates and GPS rates have increased our understanding of the overall active deformation of a region. A parallel process has been developed for active faulting and seismicity offshore with different techniques, combining detailed digital bathymetric data and litho-seismic profiles. Thus, the basic parameters of fault length, fault throw and their impact on seabed morphology have been determined. The dating of off-shore faults, either by drilling or by the sedimentation rates obtained from shallow coring, resulted in the estimation of slip rates. However, the study of active faulting in areas combining on-shore and off-shore faults is not common in the literature, as the two groups (terrestrial and marine) usually work and collaborate separately.

This Special Issue aims to bring the two groups of experts on active faulting and seismicity together, and thus, we invite papers on active faulting and seismicity (1) for on-shore areas, (2) for off-shore areas and (3) for areas combining both on-shore and off-shore domains.

Prof. Dr. Dimitrios Papanikolaou
Guest Editor

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• maps of active faults
• fault throw and slip rate
• techniques of fault dating
• seismic history of faults
• integration of on-shore and off-shore faults
• growth faulting and slip rate
• slip rate and uplift/subsidence, erosion, sedimentation, GPS rate
• seismic activity of marginal faults of basins
• seismic hazard maps
• active faulting and focal mechanisms