Active Faulting and Seismic Hazard in Attaki (Greece)

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: ENV4960277

Project closed

Start date 1 June 1996

End date 31 December 1998

Funded under

• Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Total cost No data

EU contribution No data

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER - GRENOBLE 1
France

Objective

To better understand the relation between active faulting, crustal and mantle structures and the inferred siesimc hazard in the region of Athens (Greece).


The project will focus on two scales: a regional (the Aegean), a local (the Gulfs of Evia and Corinth).

1) At a regional scale we will study the hazard associated with the Aegean sea which experienced the strongest
earthquakes in the present century and provoked tsunamis. We will study the sallow and intermediate depth
seismicity and mechanisms, the type of tectonics, the velocity structure, anisotropy, attenuation and the seismic
wave propagation.

We will install for a period of 6 months a network of 30 broad-band seismological stations over the Aegean
sea in order to gather the necessary data.

2) At a local scale, we will study the tectonics of the Gulf of Evia in the same details as we did for the Gulf
of Corinth, compare and look for possibly interrelated mechanisms. We will study the consistency between long
term (tectonics) and short term (geodesy) deformation and the relation between the deep and shallow structures.

We will use satellite imagery for tectonics, install a satellite-GPS network of benchmarks to study the
deformation. We will maintain the 2 local seismological networks. We will perform magneto-telluric
measurements and install for 5 months 45 seismological stations along 2 profiles located from northern
Peloponnese to Evia and study the deep structure and possible rooted faults.

The main deliverables will be maps of active faults, seismological and geodetic data.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

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• engineering and technology › mechanical engineering › vehicle engineering › aerospace engineering › satellite technology
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › geology › seismology

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Programme(s)

• FP4-ENV 2C - Specific programme of research and technological development in the field of environment and climate, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 020302 - Seismic risk

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

UNIVERSITE JOSEPH FOURIER - GRENOBLE 1

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue de la Piscine 1381 Domaine Universitaire Bètim ; 38041 Grenoble ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 54006 THESSALONKI
• Total cost: No data

Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 4,Place Jussieu ; 75252 Paris
• Total cost: No data

NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Panepistimioupolis Ilissia ; 15784 ZOGRAPHOS, ATHENS
• Total cost: No data

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 9,Heroon Polytechniou 9 ; 15780 ATHENS
• Total cost: No data

University of Cambridge

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Downing Street ; CB2 3EQ Cambridge
• Total cost: No data