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AcknowledgmentsThe knowledge and information expressed in these tectonic summaries is compiled by the authors and often utilizes a wealth of geological and geophysical literature, too numerous to list here. The authors thank all researchers who have worked to improve our understanding of global tectonics, historic earthquakes, and seismotectonic problems.All relative tectonic plate velocities were calculated using the UNAVCO Plate Motion Calculator and the MORVEL 2010 model (https://www.unavco.org/software/geodetic-utilities/platemotion-calculator/plate-motion-calculator.html).
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AbstractThis paper describes the tectonic summaries for all magnitude 7 and larger earthquakes in the period 2000-2015, as produced by the U.S. Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center during their routine response operations to global earthquakes. The goal of such summaries is to provide important event-specific information to the public rapidly and concisely, such that recent earthquakes can be understood within a global and regional seismotectonic framework. We compile these summaries here to provide a long-term archive for this information, and so that the variability in tectonic setting and earthquake history from region to region, and sometimes within a given region, can be more clearly understood.