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How continental areas deform has been a subject of intense research, especially in the prism of plate tectonics. The distribution of seismicity in continental areas is not confined to a single fault, but earthquakes are distributed over wide zones, hundreds or even thousands wide, which contain many faults. Within these deforming zones, as for example the Alpine-Himalayan Belt, there are blocks, which are relative aseismic, as the region of central Turkey, and are commonly referred to as microplates.
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Kiratzi, A., Benetatos, C., Vallianatos, F. (2018). Seismic Deformation Derived from Moment Tensor Summation: Application Along the Hellenic Trench. In: D'Amico, S. (eds) Moment Tensor Solutions. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77359-9_10
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