Seismic risk in Northern Iceland: Deformation maps of Tjörnes peninsula computed from INSAR.

• Main Authors: O. Henriot, T. Villemin, F. Jouanne, Le Bourget, Du Lac Cedex
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Husavik; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Krafla; Tjörnes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.533.9129; http://earth.esa.int/pub/ESA_DOC//fringe1999/Papers/henriot.pdf

The Tjörnes Fracture Zone (TFZ) is a dia-mond shaped transform zone between the offshore Kolbeinsey ridge and the onland North Iceland Rift Zone (Fig. 1). Its southern border is a 100km long N120°E dextral strike-slip zone, a few kilo-metres offshore North of the island for 2/ 3 rds of its length. H...