Earthquake catalog of the 2020-2021 seismic crisis in western Corinth Gulf, Greece

Author(s):  
Maria Mesimeri ◽  
Athanassios Ganas ◽  
Kristine Pankow
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Console ◽  
Roberto Carluccio ◽  
Maura Murru ◽  
Eleftheria Papadimitriou ◽  
Vassilis Karakostas

ABSTRACT A physics-based earthquake simulation algorithm for modeling the long-term spatiotemporal process of strong (M ≥ 6.0) earthquakes in Corinth Gulf area, Greece, is employed and its performance is explored. The underlying physical model includes the rate- and state-dependent frictional formulation, along with the slow tectonic loading and coseismic static stress transfer. The study area constitutes a rapidly extending rift about 100 km long, where the deformation is taken up by eight major fault segments aligned along its southern coastline, and which is associated with several strong (M ≥ 6.0) earthquakes in the last three centuries, since when the historical earthquake catalog is complete. The recurrence time of these earthquakes and their spatial relation are studied, and the simulator results reveal spatiotemporal properties of the regional seismicity such as pseudoperiodicity as well as multisegment ruptures of strong earthquakes. As the simulator algorithm allows the display of the stress pattern on all the single elements of the fault, we are focusing on the time evolution of the stress level before, during, and after these earthquakes occur. In this respect, the spatiotemporal variation of the stress and its heterogeneity appear to be correlated with the process of preparation of strong earthquakes in a quantitative way.


2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Arvanitakis ◽  
C. Gounaropoulos ◽  
M. Avlonitis

In this study it is proposed that spatially detecting low b values in certain segment faults in conjunction to the spatial earthquake density of the corresponding areas, can be used in order to locate faults asperities. This hypothesis is tested in the area of Corinth Gulf where we have processed data from the earthquake catalog of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, during a significant period of 45 years, from 1970 until 2015. From the calculations of b values and earthquake density in certain regions asperity patterns have been observed: asperity located by small b values and low densities coincide with proposition of possible asperity found in literature. Based on these facts we reproduce the hypothesis of an Asperity in the south area of Corinth Gulf between the Helike and Xilokastro faults.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4905
Author(s):  
Chen Cao ◽  
Xiangbin Wu ◽  
Lizhi Yang ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Xianying Wang ◽  
...  

Exploring the spatiotemporal distribution of earthquake activity, especially earthquake migration of fault systems, can greatly to understand the basic mechanics of earthquakes and the assessment of earthquake risk. By establishing a three-dimensional strike-slip fault model, to derive the stress response and fault slip along the fault under regional stress conditions. Our study helps to create a long-term, complete earthquake catalog. We modelled Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks for pattern recognition of the synthetical earthquake catalog. The performance of the models was compared using the mean-square error (MSE). Our results showed clearly the application of LSTM showed a meaningful result of 0.08% in the MSE values. Our best model can predict the time and magnitude of the earthquakes with a magnitude greater than Mw = 6.5 with a similar clustering period. These results showed conclusively that applying LSTM in a spatiotemporal series prediction provides a potential application in the study of earthquake mechanics and forecasting of major earthquake events.


2019 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saeko Kita

AbstractI relocated the hypocenters of the 2018 M6.7 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake and its surrounding area, using a three-dimensional seismic structure, the double-difference relocation method, and the JMA earthquake catalog. After relocation, the focal depth of the mainshock became 35.4 km. As previous studies show, in south-central Hokkaido, the Hidaka collision zone is formed, and anomalous deep and thickened forearc crust material is subducting at depths of less than 70 km. The mainshock and its aftershocks are located at depths of approximately 10 to 40 km within the lower crust of the anomalous deep and thickened curst near the uppermost mantle material intrusions in the northwestern edge of this Hidaka collision zone. Like the two previous large events, the aftershocks of this event incline steeply eastward and appear to be distributed in the deeper extension of the Ishikari-teichi-toen fault zone. The highly inclined fault in the present study is consistent with a fault model by a geodetic analysis with InSAR. The aftershocks at depths of 10 to 20 km are located at the western edge of the high-attenuation (low-Qp) zone. These kinds of relationships between hypocenters and materials are the same as the 1970 and 1982 events in the Hidaka collision zone. The anomalous large focal depths of these large events compared with the average depth limit of inland earthquakes in Japan could be caused by the locally lower temperature in south-central Hokkaido. This event is one of the approximately M7 large inland earthquakes that occurred repeatedly at a recurrence interval of approximately 40 years and is important in the collision process in the Hidaka collision zone.


Author(s):  
Ellen Yu ◽  
Aparna Bhaskaran ◽  
Shang-Lin Chen ◽  
Zachary E. Ross ◽  
Egill Hauksson ◽  
...  

Abstract The Southern California Earthquake Data Center is hosting its earthquake catalog and seismic waveform archive in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Open Dataset Program (s3://scedc-pds; us-west-2 region). The cloud dataset’s high data availability and scalability facilitate research that uses large volumes of data and computationally intensive processing. We describe the data archive and our rationale for the formats and data organization. We provide two simple examples to show how storing the data in AWS Simple Storage Service can benefit the analysis of large datasets. We share usage statistics of our data during the first year in the AWS Open Dataset Program. We also discuss the challenges and opportunities of a cloud-hosted archive.


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