The absence of earthquakes or aftershocks worries seismologists and for this reason they have put the area under close surveillance
His reservations about the evolution of the phenomenon, after the earthquake 5.1 R last Sunday in Corinthian Gulf, expressed speaking in the First Program the president of OASP, professor of Dynamic Tectonics Applied Geology and Natural Disaster Management, Efthymios Lekkas, stressing that the area has been put under strict surveillance by seismologists.
“There is a caveat that is essentially based on the fact that after the 5.1R earthquake that occurred at one o’clock on Sunday morning, we do not have an adequate seismic or post-seismic sequence so far. We only have a few earthquakes of the order of 1.5 – 2 R and we would expect something more, that is, at least one earthquake above 4 R and many around 3 to 4 R” said Mr. Lekkas to emphasize that they are “open the chances’ of a larger earthquake or the same magnitude as Sunday’s will follow.
The president of the OASP underlined that the specific fault cannot produce large earthquakes, however, the wider area has produced large earthquakes such as 6.5 R in 1995 in Aigio.
“We essentially have the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Patras, a tectonic trench, a sinkhole, which has essentially created the Gulf of Corinth with numerous faults, a complex of faults that exist in the underwater space and which are not directly visible and these create the high seismicity. This is an active area of ​​Corinthian.”
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