Special issue Comptes-Rendus Geosciences for the 100 years of the BCSF “Seismicity in France”

Frédéric Masson; Carole Petit; Stéphane Mazzotti

Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, Volume 353 (2021) p. 1-4

Plein texte : ... The deadly earthquakes in Italy (2009, Mw 6.1 L’Aquila; 2016 Mw 6.0 Amatrice and Mw 6.5 Norcia) and the recent seismicity crises in Mayotte, Le Teil and Strasbourg have reminded us that seismicity is a non-negligible natural hazard for our country. Moreover, new technical and theoretical advances have recently challenged the classical understanding of the link between seismicity and crustal deformation in France [Masson et al. 2019; Henrion et al. 2020] and elsewhere [Craig and Calais 2014]. ...