Geodetic strain of Greece in the interval 1892–1992

Fault‐slip directions in central and southern Greece measured from striated and corrugated fault planes: Comparison with focal mechanism and geodetic data

“…However, using the values described above, we suggest that Figures 10a and 10b show that the fault-slip directions are qualitatively similar to the principal strain axes derived from GPS [see Davies et al, 1997]. For completeness we have also calculated fault-slip directions using all our data including data from the ends of faults ( Figure 10c and Table 2), that is with no filtering process.…”

Neogene evolution of the Aegean arc: paleomagnetic and geodetic evidence for a rapid and young rotation phase

“…The results of more than 30 occupations of several local networks (see [23]) and of the reoccupation by GPS of a 100 year old triangulation network in central Greece [24] are now combined into one data set of about 240 velocity vectors [25]. This data set is one of the subjects of GPS Seismic hazard IN Greece (SING) project [26]; it covers the entire Aegean region and is densest in central Greece and the Peloponessos.…”

Strike slip tectonics and transtensional deformation in the Aegean region and the Hellenic arc: Preliminary results

“…These and other pioneering studies have shown that earthquake faulting parameters, distribution and sense of motion on mapped active faults display close relationship between them (McKenzie, 1972(McKenzie, , 1978Le Pichon and Angelier, 1981;McKenzie and Jackson, 1983;Taymaz et al, 1991;Goldsworthy et al, 2002) but have not led to the formulation of a widely accepted kinematic model for the Aegean deformation. In the last 20 years GPS surveys have contributed to the quantification of the contemporary deformation of the Aegean region and provided important clues to the understanding of the large-scale kinematics (Billiris et al, 1991;Le Pichon et al, 1995;Davies et al, 1997: Clarke et al, 1998Briole et al, 2000;McClusky et al, 2000;Nyst & Thatcher, 2004). The westward extrusion of Anatolia continental block along the North Anatolian Fault, the NNEward subduction of the Eastern Mediterranean lithosphere beneath the Hellenic Arc, the subsequent SSW-NNE extension of the Aegean back-arc region, the collision of NW Greece with the Apulian block in the northern Ionian Sea north of the Kephallonia Fault and the incipient collision with the Libyan promontory south of Crete (Mascle et al, 1999) …”