The northward movement and collision of the Arabian plate with Eurasia generates compressive stresses and resulting shortening in Iran. Within the Alborz Mountains, North Iran, a complex and not well understood system of strike-slip and thrust faults accomodates a fundamental part of the NNE-SSW oriented shortening.
On 28th of May 2004 the Mw 6.3 Baladeh earthquake hit the north-central Alborz Mountains. It is one of the rare and large events in this region in modern time and thus a seldom chance to study earthquake mechanisms and the local ongoing deformation processes. It also demonstrated the high vulnerability of this densily populated region.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:5398 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Donner, Stefanie, Rößler, Dirk, Krüger, Frank, Ghods, Abdolreza, Strecker, Manfred |
| Contributors | Technical University Denmark, Inst. for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences |
| Publisher | Universität Potsdam, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften |
| Source Sets | Potsdam University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Misc |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/de/ |
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