TITLE:
Fault Movement Potentials in the Tehran-Semnan Region (North Iran)
AUTHORS:
Hamideh Noroozpour, Mehran Arian, Ali Sorbi
KEYWORDS:
Quaternary Faults, Semnan, Tehran, FMP, Iran
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Geology,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
13,
2015
ABSTRACT: The major Quaternary
faults in the Tehran-Semnan region can be classified based on their strikes
into three sets: northeast-southwest, northwest-southeast and east-west. In
this paper, we use a model to evaluate fault movement potential (FMP). Their
theoretical model is based on the relationship between fault geometrical
characteristics and regional tectonic stress field. The results show that The
Mosha, Emam Zadeh Davood and Pourlcan-Vardij fault zones have high FMP (0.9 or
90%) and the Parchin fault zone has very low FMP (0.0 - 0.1) in the area.