Abstract: International audience; Using an updated active faults map in the easternmost Western Mediterranean (Algeria to Calabria), plus constraints from geodesy (GPS horizontal motion) and seismology (focal mechanisms) input in a strain model, we discussed how the slow Africa-Eurasia motion (4 mm/year) is accommodated along this segment of the Mediterranean. The width of the inverted domains is variable, strain being concentrated into narrow belts in northern Algeria and north Sicily while it is distributed in Tunisia and over the Pelagian platform. Th...
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Topics: 
Seismology
Paleontology