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2020–2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading The Western Gulf of Corinth (Greece) 2020–2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading Events: First Results from the Corinth Rift Laboratory Network George Kaviris, Panagiotis Elias, Vasilis Kapetanidis, Anna Serpetsidaki, Andreas Karakonstantis, Vladimír Plicka, Louis de Barros, Efthimios Sokos, Ioannis Kassaras, Vassilis Sakkas, et al. To cite this version: George Kaviris, Panagiotis Elias, Vasilis Kapetanidis, Anna Serpetsidaki, Andreas Karakonstantis, et al.. The Western Gulf of Corinth (Greece) 2020–2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading Events: First Results from the Corinth Rift Laboratory Network. The Seismic Record, Seismological Society of America, 2021, 1 (2), pp.85-95. 10.1785/0320210021. hal-03304514 HAL Id: hal-03304514 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03304514 Submitted on 28 Jul 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License The Western Gulf of Corinth (Greece) 2020–2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading Events: First Results from the Corinth Rift Laboratory Network George Kaviris* et al. Abstract We investigate a seismic crisis that occurred in the western Gulf of Corinth (Greece) between December 2020 and February 2021. This area is the main focus of the Corinth Rift Laboratory (CRL) network, and has been closely monitored with local seismological and geodetic networks for 20 yr. The 2020–2021 seismic crisis evolved in three stages: It M started with an w 4.6 event near the northern shore of the Gulf, opposite of Aigion, then M migrated eastward toward Trizonia Island after an w 5.0 event, and eventually culmi- M ∼ nated with an w 5.3 event, 3 km northeast of the Psathopyrgos fault. Aftershocks Cite this article as Kaviris, G., Elias, P., gradually migrated westward, triggering another cluster near the junction with the Kapetanidis, V., Serpetsidaki, A., – Rion Patras fault. Moment tensor inversion revealed mainly normal faulting; however, Karakonstantis, A., Plicka, V., De Barros, L., some strike-slip mechanisms also exist, composing a complex tectonic regime in this region Sokos, E., Kassaras, I., Sakkas, V., et al. dominated by east–west normal faults. We employ seismic and geodetic observations to (2021). The Western Gulf of Corinth – constrain the geometry and kinematics of the structures that hosted the major events. We (Greece) 2020 2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading Events: First Results from the discuss possible triggering mechanisms of the second and third stages of the sequence, Corinth Rift Laboratory Network, The including fluids migration and aseismic creep, and propose potential implications of the Seismic Record. 1,85–95, doi: 10.1785/ M w 5.3 mainshock for the seismic hazard of the region. 0320210021. Supplemental Material Introduction Greece. Farther south, the Rion–Patras fault runs offshore, The Corinth rift (central Greece) is a Quaternary graben char- likely connecting to the causative strike-slip fault of the 2008 acterized by ∼east–west normal faulting. The western Gulf of Movri earthquake (Serpetsidaki et al., 2014). Corinth (WGoC) is its most active region (Fig. 1), with an In the early 2000s, the Corinth Rift Laboratory network extension rate reaching 15 mm · yr−1 across N009°E (Briole (CRLnet) was established, covering a 30 km × 30 km area in et al., 2021). Seismicity level is high (Makropoulos et al., the WGoC (Cornet et al., 2004). CRL is one of the Near- > M 2012), with the most recent M 6 event being the 1995 s 6.2 Fault Observatories (NFO) of the European Plate Observing Aigion earthquake (Bernard et al., 1997, Fig. 1). Since 2010, System, and the only with an international status. It is admin- M ≥ : several events with w 5 0 have occurred: the January 2010 istered and maintained by the Centre National de la Recherche M – et al. w 5.2 5.3 Efpalio doublet (Sokos , 2012), the November Scientifique (France), the National and Kapodistrian M et al. M 2014 w 5.0 (Kaviris , 2018), and the March 2019 w 5.1 University of Athens (NKUA-Greece), the University of earthquakes. Major active north-dipping structures include the Pirgaki, Helike, Aigion, and Psathopyrgos faults in the south, whereas the Marathias and Trizonia faults on the northern Full author list and affiliations appear at the end of this article. coast are south-dipping and steeper. The westward continu- *Corresponding author: [email protected] ation of the Psathopyrgos fault turns to the Rion–Patras fault © 2021. The Authors. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the and runs inland north of Patras—the third-largest city in original work is properly cited. https://www.seismosoc.org/publications/the-seismic-record/ • DOI: 10.1785/0320210021 The Seismic Record 85 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article-pdf/1/2/85/5363987/tsr-2021021.1.pdf by guest on 28 July 2021 Patras (Greece), and the National Observatory of Athens Figure 1. Seismotectonic map of the western Corinth rift. The epicenters of M ≥ : – (NOA-Greece), with the participation of Charles University relocated seismicity ( w 2 0) during 2000 2015 are after Duverger et al. (2018) and are depicted as circles or stars (the latter for Mw ≥ 4:5) (Czech Republic). NFOs are long-term observation and research with size proportional to magnitude. Focal mechanisms of events with infrastructures, tailored to provide high-resolution multidiscipli- Mw ≥ 5:0 are displayed; the 15 June 1995 Ms 6.2 event is after Bernard nary data and products in the near field of faults of major impor- et al. (1997); the 2010 Efpalio doublet is after Sokos et al. (2012); other tance in Europe. CRLnet comprises 80+ permanent stations, focal mechanisms by Seismological Laboratory of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA-SL). Seismological stations of equipped with seismometers, accelerometers, Global Navigation the Corinth Rift Laboratory (CRL) network are depicted by blue upright Satellite Systems (GNSS), tide gauges, and strainmeters (Fig. 1). (seismometers) and pink inverted (accelerometers) triangles; Global It enables detailed monitoring of the fluctuations of the intense Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) stations are represented by green squares; the in Monastiraki (MOKI) strainmeter is marked with a yellow microseismicity and deformation. The seismicity is clustered in diamond. The location of the western Gulf of Corinth (WGoC) in central time and space, with episodic seismic sequences, for example, Greece is shown in the inset map. For fault lines, see Kapetanidis et al. the 2003–2004 offshore WGoC (Duverger et al.,2015), 2013 (2015), Duverger et al. (2018), and references therein. Helike (Kapetanidis et al., 2015; Mesimeri et al.,2016), and 2015 Malamata (De Barros et al.,2020) swarms. GNSS record- M ings and Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) sequence culminated with a 17 February 2021 w 5.3 event, revealed the deformation sources of moderate earthquakes north of the eastern edge of the Psathopyrgos fault. The west- and the likely existence of aseismic slip at shallow depth in some ward expansion of the crisis raised concerns regarding poten- places (Elias and Briole, 2018). tial impact on the densely populated urban area of Patras. The On 23 December 2020, an intense seismic crisis started in present study is a joint scientific effort of the CRL partners, M the WGoC with an w 4.6 event at the northern coast, near aiming to characterize the structures activated during the Marathias. It was followed by several larger events. The sequence. We calculate hypocenters, focal mechanisms, https://www.seismosoc.org/publications/the-seismic-record/ • DOI: 10.1785/0320210021 The Seismic Record 86 Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/tsr/article-pdf/1/2/85/5363987/tsr-2021021.1.pdf by guest on 28 July 2021 ground displacements at the GNSS stations, and Synthetic Figure 2. (a) Seismicity map for the period 23 December 2020–28 February Aperture Radar (SAR) interferograms. We analyze the seismic- 2021 divided into three spatial groups, indicated by different colors and M ≥ : ity migration, and we discuss the role of the fluids and the numbers, with events of w 4 5 represented by stars along with their respective focal mechanisms. Dashed rectangles mark the directions and possible existence of aseismic slip. boundaries of cross sections presented in panels (b–d). Dashed lines at the cross sections (b–d) are down-dip extensions of mapped faults, Seismological Methods assuming an apparent dip angle of 60°. Light-gray dots indicate relocated seismicity of 2000–2015 (Duverger et al., 2018). We examined the seismicity recorded in the WGoC between 23 December 2020 and 28 February 2021. We analyzed 2960 events, with P-andS-wave arrival-time data manually determined at 0.31 km in horizontal and 0.86 km in vertical, supposing an aver- the Seismological Laboratory of NKUA and the Geodynamic age arrival-time reading error (i.e., picking measurement Institute of NOA. Initial locations were assessed using discrepancy from the true P-orS-wave arrival) of 0.13 s. For HYPOINVERSE (Klein, 2002), tuning distance weighting by location uncertainties and other statistics, see Table S5 and excluding stations located 40+ km away from the epicenters. Figures S3 and S4, available in the supplemental material to this We employed the 1D velocity model of Rigo et al. (1996);there- article. fore, our locations are consistent with those of previous works To facilitate the spatial and temporal description of the crisis, using the same model (e.g., Duverger et al., 2018).
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