Earthquake, Landslide, and Tsunami Hazards and Benthic Biology in the Greater Antilles

Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are located at the boundary between the North American plate and the northeast corner of the Caribbean plate (Figure 1), where plate tectonic interactions have caused large magnitude earthquakes and devastating tsunamis. Some of the peculiarities of this plate boun...

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Published in:Oceanography (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2014-03, Vol.27 (1), p.34-35
Main Authors: Brink, Uri ten, Coleman, Dwight F, Chaytor, Jason, Demopoulos, Amanda WJ, Armstrong, Roy, Garcia-Moliner, Graciela, Raineault, Nicole A, Andrews, Brian, Chastain, Roger, Rodrigue, Katherine, Mercier-Gingras, Mathieu
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Summary:Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are located at the boundary between the North American plate and the northeast corner of the Caribbean plate (Figure 1), where plate tectonic interactions have caused large magnitude earthquakes and devastating tsunamis. Some of the peculiarities of this plate boundary include an unusually deep trench north of Puerto Rico (the deepest place in the Atlantic Ocean) where subduction of the North American plate is very oblique, an additional fold-and-thrust belt with opposite polarity south of Puerto Rico, and complex deformation zones on the west (Mona Passage) and southeast (Anegada Passage) sides of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Figure 1).
ISSN:1042-8275