Lower and upper plate controls on crustal seismicity in the southern Central and Patagonian Andes

• Published in: Tectonics
• Main Authors: Correa Otto, Sebastian Ariel, Gianni, Guido Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: ANDES; CRUSTAL SEISMICITY; SLAB BREAK-OFF; SLAB TEAR; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Argentina; Correa; Guido; Patagonia; San Juan; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/220204

We analyze crustal seismological records to assess the origin of the variable seismic activity along the southern Central and Patagonian Andes (30°–55°S), an area associated with latitudinal changes in the lower-plate geometry, upper-plate deformation, and topography. We carried out a statistical an...