GPS Measurements of Plate Interactions in the Western Mediterranean

9814964 Reilinger P.I.及其合作者正在提议进行一项全球定位系统(GPS)调查，以开发包括Btic-Rif和Atlas山脉在内的地中海西部地区详细的速度场。此外，他们将与欧洲同行合作，并结合他们在地中海东部和中东正在进行的努力，使用在欧洲、北非、小亚细亚和中东的连续全球定位系统测站，绘制从亚速尔群岛延伸到高加索地区的今天运动和应变的全面地图。这些地壳形变图，加上辅助的地质和地球物理数据，有望从根本上提供有关非洲-阿拉伯-欧亚板块碰撞带地球动力学的新信息，对评估和减轻地震灾害具有直接影响。

9814964Reilinger The P.I. and collaborators are proposing a Global Positioning System (GPS) survey to develop a detailed velocity field for the western Mediterranean region including the Betic-Rif and Atlas mountain systems. Furthermore, in cooperation with their European colleagues, and in conjunction with their ongoing efforts in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, they will develop comprehensive maps of present-day motions and strains extending from the Azores to the Caucasus using continuous and survey GPS stations throughout Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, and the Middle East. These crustal deformation maps, together with auxiliary geologic and geophysical data, promise to provide fundamentally new information on earth dynamics in the Africa-Arabia-Eurasia plate collision zone with direct implications for earthquake hazard evaluation and mitigation.