Regional mid-ocean stress and a proposed focal mechanism of 'stress-discordant' earthquakes

• Published in: Geophysical Journal International
• Main Author: Keith, M. L.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1981
• Subjects: Articles; Reykjanes; Iceland
• Online Access: http://gji.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/65/3/627; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1981.tb04876.x

Rock stress measurements in Iceland show maximum horizontal compression perpendicular to the trend of Reykjanes Ridge crest and of its extension, the active volcanic zone of Iceland. Fault-plane solutions of dormant stage earthquakes are consistent with the measured stress orientations, but strike—s...