Relative locations of earthquakes in the Tjörnes Fracture Zone

• Main Author: Einarsson, Páll
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Soc. Sci. Islandica 1976
• Subjects: Jarðskjálftarannsóknir; Kolbeinsey; Kolbeinsey Ridge; Tjörnes; Dalvík; Grímsey; Húsavík; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4046

The seismicity of the Tjörnes Fracture Zone is distributed over a zone 150 km long and 80 km wide. Teleseismic locations of earthquakes within this zone show a diffuse pattern of epicenters that does not easily lend itself to tectonic interpretation. An attempt was made to locate the earthquakes of...