Frontiers | Normal Faulting Along the Kythira-Antikythira St

Frontiers | Normal Faulting Along the Kythira-Antikythira Strait, Southwest Hellenic Forearc, Greece

Upper-plate normal faults along forearcs often accumulate slip during > Mw 6 earthquakes. Such normal faults traverse the forearc of the Hellenic Subduction System (HSS) in Greece and are the focus of this study. Here, we use detailed field-mapping and analysis of high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) to study 42 active normal faults on the islands of Kythira and Antikythira in the Aegean Sea. Onshore fault kinematic data are complemented by seabed bathymetry mapping of ten offshore faults that extend along the Kythira-Antikythira Strait (KAS). We find that normal faults in the KAS have lengths of ~1-58 km and scarps ranging in height from 1.5 m to 2.8 km, accommodating, during the Quaternary, trench-orthogonal (NE-SW) extension of ~2.46 ± 1.53 mm/a. Twenty-eight of these faults have ruptured since the Last Glacial Maximum, with their postglacial (16±2 ka) displacement rates (0.19-1.25 mm/a) exceeding their Quaternary (≤ 0.7-3 Ma) rates (0.03-0.37 mm/a) by more than one order of magnitude. Rate variability, which is more pronounced on short (<8 km) faults, is thought to arise due to temporally clustered paleoearthquakes on individual KAS faults. When displacement accumulation is considered across the entire onshore fault network, rate variability between the two time-intervals examined decreases significantly (2.79±0.41 vs 1.29±0.99 mm/a), a feature that suggests that earthquake clustering in the KAS may occur over ≤16 ka timescales.

Related Keywords

Potamos , Perifereia Voreiou Aigaiou , Greece , Spili , Perifereia Kritis , Pichilemu , Valparaí , Chile , Nevada , United States , Edgecumbe , New Zealand General , New Zealand , Red Sea , Djibouti General , Djibouti , Inner Mongolia , Nei Mongol , China , Beijing , California , Taupo , Bern , Switzerland , Western Greece , Perifereia Dytikis Elladas , Egypt , Bedford , Borough Of Bedford , United Kingdom , Italy , Kapsali , Perifereia Thessalias , Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , Pisia , Perifereia Peloponnisou , Kythera , Perifereia Attikis , Poukawa , Monaco , Mejillones , Antofagasta , Amorgos , Perifereia Notiou Aigaiou , Kokkalas , Perifereia Stereas Elladas , Kaikoura , Japan , Lisbon , Lisboa , Portugal , Tohoku , Japan General , Boston , Massachusetts , Corinth , London , City Of , Taranaki , Athens , Attikír , Zakynthos , Perifereia Ionion Nison , Apulia , Braga , America , Greek , Chilean , Crete Flemming , Kythira Antikythira Strait , Kythira Strait , Van Hinsbergen , Hikurangi Forearc , Mitata Lekkas , Mitata Kythira , Le Pichon , Gt Hebenstreit Dordrecht , Delli Rocioli , Tectonic Development Of The Hellenic Arc , Cambridge University , Tsunami Research , Subsurface Research , Geological Society , Onshore Group , Cambridge University Press , Geological Society Special Publications , Master Faults Group , Institute For Geology , Elsevier , Hellenic Subduction System , Late Pleistocene , Hellenic Trough , Kefalonia Transform , Antikythira Strait , Last Glacial Maximum , Profilea A , Late Miocene , Late Quaternary , Potamos Detachment Fault , Gerakianika Fault , Kapsali Fault , Late Pliocene , Marine Isotopic Stages , East Peloponnese , Potamos Detachment , Hellenic Trench , Master Faults , Extension Direction , Profileb B , Profilebb , Earthquake Sequence , Structural Geology Algorithms , Confined Turbidite Systems , Southern Cretan Margin , Eastern Mediterranean Sea , Middle East , Multidisciplinary Study , Precise Relative Locations , Shallow Crustal , Tectonic Development , Hellenic Arc , East West Extension , Late Holocene Faulting , Active Rift Using Lidar , Taupo Rift , Kaparelli Fault , Sequence Determined , Terra Nova , Post Glacial Slip History , Sparta Fault , Cosmogenic Dating , Earthquake Synchrony , Fucino Faults , Central Italy , Solid Earth , New Insights , Active Faulting , Normal Upper Plate Fault Reactivation , Northern Chile , Subduction Earthquake Cycle , From Geological Observations , Static Coulomb Failure Stress , Long Term Fault Interactions , Deformation Patterns , Crustal Extensional Faulting Triggered , Pichilemu Seismic , Holocene Eustatic Changes , Coastal Tectonics , Northeast Mediterranean , Morphotectonic Evolution , Southern Half , Kythira Island , Ionian Sea , Determining Histories , Normal Faults , Bedrock Scarps Using Cosmogenic Nuclide Exposure , World Stress Map Database Release , Vertical Coastal Motions , Geomorphological Development , Corinth Earthquakes , Seismic Sequence Triggered , Pacific Coast , Tohoku Earthquake , Wholesale Stress Regime Changes , Active Reverse Fault , Forearc Setting , Poukawa Fault Zone , Structural Decoupling , Convergent Forearc Setting , Southern Crete , Eastern Mediterranean , Crustal Rheology , Santorini Amorgos Zone , Nucleation Depth , Rupture Extent , Offshore Kythira Island , Southern Greece , Macroseismic Observations , Crustal Stress Field , Greece Inferred , Damped Inversion , Earthquake Focal , Mediterranean Ridge Backstop , Local Site Effects , Island Intermediate Depth Event , World Conference , Earthquake Engineering , Pliocene Pleistocene Stack , Distributed Benthic , Active Deformation , Displacement Accumulation , Kinematic Analysis , Hellenic Forearc , Global Positioning System Constraints , Plate Kinematics , Seismic History , Pisia Fault , Eastern Corinth Rift , Fault Plane Weathering Features , Transient Stripping ,

© 2025 Vimarsana