Microearthquakes in Central Zagros, recorded for 7 weeks in 1997, lie in a ∼6-8 km zone that is likely located beneath 11 km of sediments. They are not located on an active décollement between the sediments and the crystalline crust, but rather define a pattern of NNW-SSE trending lineaments parallel to the fold axes observed at the surface. The spacing between the seismic lineaments is ∼15-20 km and therefore different from that between the folds (∼10-15 km), which suggests that there is not a simple relationship between the two. Focal mechanisms and precise relative locations are consistent with NW-SE striking reverse faulting connected by NNW-SSE striking right lateral strike-slip faults. The dip of the reverse faults is not certain but is likely NE for the northernmost faults. The strain pattern deduced from the P-axes is remarkably similar to the shortening deduced from GPS-based geodesy suggesting that microearthquakes are the response of the prefractured brittle crust to strain rather than localized on single active faults.
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Tatar, M., Hatzfeld, D., & Ghafory-Ashtiany, M. (2004). Tectonics of the Central Zagros (Iran) deduced from microearthquake seismicity. Geophysical Journal International, 156(2), 255–266. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2003.02145.x
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