The 2021 Mw 5.6 Earthquake in the Guyana Shield, South America: An Intraplate Event with No Reason to Occur

In 31 January 2021, an Mw 5.6 earthquake occurred in the Guyana shield, causing damage to adobe houses and ground cracks. A four-station network, installed in March, showed a shallow (1–3 km) southeast–northwest-oriented reverse fault, consistent with global and regional Centroid Moment Tensor (CMT)...

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Main Authors: Marcelo Assumpção, Marcelo Bianchi, Jackson Calhau, Daniel Rosa, Javed Baksh, Daniella Assing, Christopher Basdeo, Jiri Zahradnik, Fábio Dias, Romain Jolivet, Eric Calais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Seismological Society of America 2025-06-01
Series:The Seismic Record
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1785/0320250002
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