Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone Explained

The Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone is a northwest-trending geological fault zone in southern Chile and Argentina.[1] The fault zone runs from Mocha Island in the Pacific to the Andes where it aligns Villarrica, Quetrupillán and Lanín volcanoes.[1] It is one of several fault zones that traverses the north-south Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Dzierma . Yvonne . Thorwart . Martin. Rabel . Wolfgang. Siegmund . Claudia . Comte . Diana . Bataille . Klaus . Iglesia . Paula . Prezzi . Claudia . 2012 . Seismicity near the slip maximum of the 1960 Mw 9.5 Valdivia earthquake (Chile): Plate interface lock and reactivation of the subducted Valdivia Fracture Zone . Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth . 117 . B6 . n/a . 10.1029/2011JB008914 . 11336/68804 . free . 2012JGRB..117.6312D . 17702854 .
  2. Pérez-Flores . Pamela . Cembrano . José. Sánchez-Alfaro . Pablo. Veloso . Eugenio. Arancibia . Gloria. Roquer . Tomás . 2016 . Tectonics, magmatism and paleo-fluid distribution in a strike-slip setting: Insights from the northern termination of the Liquiñe–Ofqui fault System, Chile . Tectonophysics . 680 . 192–210 . 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.05.016 . June 1, 2018. 2016Tectp.680..192P.

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