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Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
Articles | Volume 12, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-1661-2021
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21 Jul 2021
Research article |  | 21 Jul 2021

Present-day geodynamics of the Western Alps: new insights from earthquake mechanisms

Marguerite Mathey, Christian Sue, Colin Pagani, Stéphane Baize, Andrea Walpersdorf, Thomas Bodin, Laurent Husson, Estelle Hannouz, and Bertrand Potin

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This work features the highest-resolution seismic stress and strain fields available at the present time for the analysis of the active crustal deformation of the Western Alps. In this paper, we address a large dataset of newly computed focal mechanisms from a statistical standpoint, which allows us to suggest a joint control from far-field forces and from buoyancy forces on the present-day deformation of the Western Alps.
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