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Region IV:
Eastern Pyrenees

1. Introduction
1.1. Structural background
1.2. Recent and present-day
deformation

2. Methodological approach

3. Site selection of paleoseismological studies
3.1. Amer-Brugent
fault system
3.2. Tortellà-Besalú neogene basin
3.3. Southern limit of the Roussillon neogene basin

4.Regional effects of large paleo- earthquakes
4.1. Caves on the 1428 epicentral area

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1. Introduction
1.1. Structural background

.Fig. 1. Oligo-Miocene period.

Figure 1 : Structural background of the Eastern Pyrenees and Northwestern part of the Mediterranean sea during the Oligo-Miocene period.

.Fig. 2. Plio-Quaternary period.

Figure 2 : Structural background of the Eastern Pyrenees and Northwestern part of the Mediterranean sea during the Plio-Quaternary period. Faults: ABF. Alberes; AF. Albanyà; CF. Cevennes; NPF. Nord-Pyrenean; NF. Nîmes; RF. Roses; TF. Têt; VPF. Vallès-Penedès. Others: CTZ. Catalan transfer zone; MA. Agly massif. SM. Sierras Marginales.