Seismicity and tectonics around the northern Antarctic Peninsula from King Sejong station data
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Title
- Seismicity and tectonics around the northern Antarctic Peninsula from King Sejong station data
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Author(s)
- Lee, DK; Jin, YK; Kim, Y; Nam, SH
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Publication Year
- 2000-06
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Abstract
- Local earthquakes recorded at the King Sejong station (62 degrees 13'31"S, 58 degrees 17'07"W) from 1995-96 have been analysed to study the seismicity and tectonics around the northern Antarctic Peninsula. The nature of shallow-focused normal fault earthquakes along the South Shetland Platform is still unclear. Dominant normal fault earthquakes and minor strike-slip earthquakes in the Eastern Bransfield Basin suggest 1) ongoing extension, and 2) transtensional stress transmitted from the Antarctic-Scotia transform boundaries, the South Scotia Ridge and the Shackleton Fracture Zone. A lack of seismicity in the Central Bransfield Basin supports that active seismicity in the Eastern Bransfield Basin is not a result of subduction along the South Shetland Trench. Shallow focused earthquakes have been observed along the NW-SE trending gravity low line between the Central and the Eastern Bransfield Basins that approximately coincides with the landward projection of a fracture zone in the former Phoenix Plate.
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ISSN
- 0954-1020
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URI
- https://sciwatch.kiost.ac.kr/handle/2020.kiost/6058
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DOI
- 10.1017/S0954102000000250
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Bibliographic Citation
- ANTARCTIC SCIENCE, v.12, no.2, pp.196 - 204, 2000
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Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
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Subject
- WEST ANTARCTICA; EVENT DETECTION; SCOTIA SEA
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Keywords
- earthquakes; King Sejong station; northern Antarctic Peninsula; seismicity; tectonics
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Type
- Article
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Language
- English
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Document Type
- Article
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