Abstract
The active tectonics of the area of Greece and its seismic activity have always been present in the country?s history. Many researchers, tempted to work on Greek historical earthquakes, have realized that this is a task not easily fulfilled. The existing catalogues of strong historical earthquakes are useful tools to perform general SHA studies. However, a variety of supporting datasets, non-uniformly distributed in space and time, need to be further investigated. In the present paper, a review of historical earthquake studies in Greece is attempted. The seismic history of the country is divided into four main periods. In each one of them, characteristic examples, studies and approaches are presented.
Highlights
Earthquakes in Greece are strongly related to everyday life, within the country’s course in history
The Kocaeli (1999 Turkey) and Athens (1999 Greece) earthquakes gave impetus to the introduction of the new term «earthquake diplomacy», which in turn has been a breakthrough for a strong basis in bilateral collaboration
The high seismic activity of the country is due to the fact that it is located at the boundary of the Africa-Eurasia convergence
Summary
Earthquakes in Greece are strongly related to everyday life, within the country’s course in history. The high seismic activity of the country is due to the fact that it is located at the boundary of the Africa-Eurasia convergence. Within this framework, the Anatolian plate rotates counterclockwise Greece often hosts large magnitude earthquakes, whilst a moderate or small magnitude earthquake is felt every 2-3 days on average This, can be due to the fact that the earthquakes which usually cause damage in Greece are relatively small. Major shallow earthquakes (M > 8, return period of about 1000 years), which can cause such extensive destructions occur rarely. 20th century earthquake epicentres with M ≥ 4 distribution in the broader area of Greece (Makropoulos et al, 2001). Red and blue colour ranges represent shallow and intermediate depth earthquakes, respectively
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