GPS Measurements of Plate Interactions in the Western Mediterranean

P.I.和合作者正在提议一项全球定位系统（GPS）调查，以开发地中海西部地区的详细速度场，包括贝蒂-裂谷和阿特拉斯山脉系统。此外，他们将与欧洲同事合作，并结合他们在地中海东部和中东正在进行的努力，利用遍布欧洲、北非、小亚细亚和中东的连续和测量GPS站，绘制从亚速尔群岛到高加索的当今运动和紧张的综合地图。这些地壳变形图，连同辅助的地质和地球物理数据，有望提供有关非洲-阿拉伯-欧亚板块碰撞带地球动力学的基本新信息，对地震危险性评价和减灾具有直接意义。

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.