Abstract
Radar Interferometry is a widely used method for estimating ground deformation, as it provides precision to a few millimeters to centimeters, and at the same time, a wide spatial coverage of the study area. On 9 July 1956, one of the strongest earthquakes of the 20th century in the area of the South Aegean, occurred in Amorgos, with a magnitude of Mw = 7.7. The objective of this research is to map ground deformation in Amorgos island, using InSAR techniques. We conducted a multi-temporal analysis of all available data from 2003 to 2019 by exploiting historical ENVISAT SAR imagery, as well as the dense archive of Sentinel-1 SLC imagery. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PS) and Small Baseline Subset (SBAS) methods were implemented. Results of both data-sets indicate a small-scale deformation on the island. A multi-track analysis was implemented on Sentinel-1 data to decompose the line of sight velocities to vertical and horizontal. The central south coast is experiencing horizontal movement, while uplift of a maximum value of 5 mm/y is observed in the southeastern coast. The combination of the good spatial coverage achievable via InSAR, with GPS measurements, is suggested an important tool for the seamless monitoring of Amorgos island towards tectonic hazard estimation.
Highlights
Greece is situated on the convergence boundaries between the Eurasian and the African lithospheric plates, and is one of the most seismogenic areas in the world
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In this study we present small-scale ground displacements measured on Amorgos island through through geodetic observations collected from a time period extended to more than a decade
Summary
Greece is situated on the convergence boundaries between the Eurasian and the African lithospheric plates, and is one of the most seismogenic areas in the world. On 9 July 1956, Greece experienced the strongest shallow earthquake in the last 100 years or so. Its moment-magnitude was measured to be equal to Mw = 7.7, while the focal depth was estimated at 20 km [1]. This large earthquake ruptured the area of the submarine trough between Amorgos, Santorini, and Astypalea in the Cyclades island complex, South Aegean Sea [2]. It is not clear if it was generated by co-seismic fault displacement or by submarine sediment slumping [3,4,5,6,7].
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