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| Paper Type | : | Research Paper |
| Title | : | Active Stress Regimes in Iran: Insights from Earthquake Focal Mechanism Stress Tensor Inversion |
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| Authors | : | Shahrokh Pourbeyranvand |
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: | 10.9790/0990-1404020120  |
Abstract: Iran occupies a key position within the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone, where regional convergence is expressed through a complex combination of thrust, transpressional, strike-slip, and oblique-slip deformation. Earthquake focal-mechanism stress-tensor inversion provides an important seismological basis for evaluating the orientation and spatial variability of the active tectonic stress field; however, published results are distributed across individual tectonic provinces and differ in focal-mechanism datasets, inversion methods, spatial resolution, and uncertainty reporting. This review synthesizes focal-mechanism stress-tensor inversion studies conducted across.....
Keywords: Iran; active tectonic stress; earthquake focal mechanisms; stress-tensor inversion; Arabia–Eurasia collision; seismotectonics; strain partitioning; regional stress heterogeneity
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