ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023
Intraplate Earthquakes: the signature of the static fatigue of continents
While most earthquakes occur near plate boundaries, where the relative motion of tectonic plates is accommodated by slip on active faults, rare and unexpected but destructive earthquakes also occur in Stable Continental Regions. In SCRs, although we do not know why, earthquakes occur everywhere, they cluster, are of all magnitudes and are modulated by surface loads. However, no tectonic, secular strain can be detected and we do not know the origin of the elastic stress fueling these seismic events. Current hypothesis suggests that SCRs are stable reservoirs of elastic stress in which earthquakes can tap to break the crust. However, although tremendous work has been conducted to seismically…
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