@misc{10481/61810,
year = {2019},
month = {3},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61810},
abstract = {Earthquakes below 50‐km depth are usually associated with active
subduction, and the direction of faulting is aligned with the orientation of the subduction zone. Faulting
in 42 earthquakes beneath the Gibraltar Arc and Alboran Sea shows different characteristics. The most
abundant solutions show horizontal slip, in agreement with relative plate motion between Africa and
Europe. Further solutions are associated with shortening and suggest compression from the basal drag of the
Earth's mantle on the moving plates. In turn, no signature of active subduction was found. Images of the
Earth's interior from teleseismic waves suggest a relation between the earthquakes and a stalled remnant of
~150‐Ma‐old oceanic material that once formed the connection between two oceans and later has been
buried beneath the Gibraltar Arc.},
organization = {We received financial
support through Mineco/Feder Project
CGL2015‐67130‐C2‐2‐R and Junta de
Andalucía research group RNM 104},
publisher = {American Geophysical Union},
title = {Focal Mechanisms for Subcrustal Earthquakes Beneath the Gibraltar Arc},
doi = {10.1029/2018GL081587},
author = {Santos Bueno, Nerea and Fernández García, Carlos and Stich, Daniel and Mancilla Pérez, Flor de Lis and Martín, Rosa and Molina-Aguilera, Antonio and Morales Soto, José},
}