Abstract
On June 15, 1995 at 00:15 GMT a devastating earthquake (6.2M L ) occurred in the western end of the Gulf of Corinth. This was followed 15 min later by the largest aftershock (5.4M L ). The main event was located by the University of Patras Seismological Network (PATNET) at the northern side of the Gulf of Corinth graben. The second event (5.4M L ) was located also by PATNET near the city of Egion, on a fault parallel to the Eliki major fault that defines the south bound of the Gulf of Corinth graben. A seismogenic volume that spans the villages of Akrata (SE) and Rodini (NW) and extends to Eratini (NE) was defined by the aftershock sequence, which includes 858 aftershocks of magnitude greater than 2M L that occurred the first seventeen days. The distribution of hypocentres in cross section does not immediately suggest a planar distribution but rather defines a volume about 15 km (depth) by 35 km (NW-SE) and by 20 km (NE-SW).
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Tselentis, G.A., Melis, N.S., Sokos, E. et al. The Egion June 15, 1995 (6.2M L ) earthquake, western Greece. PAGEOPH 147, 83–98 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00876437
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