Focal Mechanisms for Subcrustal Earthquakes Beneath the Gibraltar Arc Santos Bueno, Nerea Fernández García, Carlos Stich, Daniel Mancilla Pérez, Flor de Lis Martín, Rosa Molina-Aguilera, Antonio Morales Soto, José 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. 2020-05-05T11:49:49Z 2020-05-05T11:49:49Z 2019-03-13 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Santos‐Bueno, N., Fernández‐García, C., Stich, D., Mancilla, F. D. L., Martín, R., Molina‐Aguilera, A., & Morales, J. (2019). Focal mechanisms for subcrustal earthquakes beneath the Gibraltar Arc. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(5), 2534-2543. http://hdl.handle.net/10481/61810 10.1029/2018GL081587 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España American Geophysical Union