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| Titel |
The strong Mw6 earthquake of 26th January 2014 in Cephalonia island, Ionian Sea, Greece: a first report |
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Vassilis Karastathis, Ioannis Koukouvelas, Athanasios Ganas, Alexandra Moschou, Aggelos Mouzakiotis, Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Dimitrios Spanos |
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EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250100971
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-17001.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| On 26 January 2014 a strong (Mw6) shallow earthquake ruptured the western side of
Cephalonia island in the Ionian Sea, Greece. The main shock was followed by abundant
aftershocks, one of them of Mw5.4. The earthquake caused damage but no human victims
mainly in the area of Lixouri town in the western part of the island. However, the rest part of
the island was only slightly affected. The earthquake caused also a series of ground failures,
such as landslides and rockfalls which are geographically distributed in the meizoseismal area
mainly along two tectonic lines trending NE-SW the first and about N-S the other. A
spot of soil liquefaction was observed in the coastal zone near the port of Lixouri.
According to first results the peak ground acceleration may have exceeded 0.35 g.
The seismotectonic field appears complicated since the main shock was associated
with about NE-SW strike-slip faulting while some of the strong aftershocks were
associated with nearly N-S thrust. A relocation of the main shock and aftershocks was
performed. We discuss the faulting associated with the earthquake sequence generation
in relation to the relocated events and the ground failures observed in the field. |
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