Communications Earth & Environment (Jul 2021)

The Horseshoe Abyssal plain Thrust could be the source of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and tsunami

  • Sara Martínez-Loriente,
  • Valentí Sallarès,
  • Eulàlia Gràcia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00216-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The 1755 Great Lisbon earthquake potentially had its source on the Horseshoe Abyssal plain Thrust, southwest of Iberia, according to a comparison of geophysical observations, historical reports and numerical modelling of the tsunami that was generated