SEISMOLOGY AND THE ACTIVE TECTONICS OF IRAN

Much of our understanding of the seismotectonics of Iran has come from the application of seismological techniques that can determine accurately the source parameters of the faulting involved in earthquakes. When this information is combined with observations of surface faulting we can obtain increasingly detailed pictures of active fault rupture and geometry, and also see how the faulting in Iran can accommodate the overall deformation between Arabia and Eurasia. This review summarizes some of the main contributions made by such seismological analysis