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Methoni Mw 6.8 rupture and aftershocks distribution from a dense array of OBS and land seismometers, offshore SW Hellenic subduction

Maria Sachpazi
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Vasilis Kapetanidis
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Marinos Charalampakis
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Mireille Laigle
Edi Kissling
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Anna Fokaefs
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Elena Daskalaki
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Ernst Flueh
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Alfred Hirn
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Along the southwestern offshore Hellenic subduction zone, the overriding Aegean upper plate above the Mediterranean oceanic lithosphere generates uncommon large earthquakes on the offshore megathrust fault. The largest subduction thrust event, for half a century, has been the 14 February 2008 Methoni earthquake (Mw = 6.8) that occurred offshore of the southwest coast of Peloponnesus. We conducted micro-seismicity experiments around the rupture area and forearc domain-between Peloponnesus and Crete-using ocean bottom seismometers (OBS) jointly with land-based seismological stations. Our first experiment in 2006, had revealed an association of the Matapan Trough, a 400-km-long forearc basin, with local seismicity clustering and a possible gap in activity over the later Methoni rupture area. Here we present new data of post-Methoni seismic activity, recorded during a time-span of 11 months, beginning in October 2008 within the period of proposed afterslip on the megathrust, by an extended and dense seismic array consisting of up to 33 OBS. A minimum 1D velocity model was constructed for the region to provide better constraints on absolute locations and double-difference relocation was applied to produce an enhanced image of the spatial distribution of hypocenters. The high resolution earthquake locations confirm correlation of the Matapan Trough with local seismicity as a regional feature, also filling up the previously observed gap. Over the Methoni rupture area, we constrain seismicity to be located mainly within the upper plate. Hypocenters are also resolved above the updip and downdip edges of the rupture area, respectively. Seismic activity provides hints of upper plate structures which were activated in response to post-seismic deformation spreading within the forearc crust. Our findings highlight the characteristics of a megathrust domain which is related with a highly deformable overriding plate and controlled by a segmented lower plate topography.
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Maria Sachpazi, Vasilis Kapetanidis, Marinos Charalampakis, Mireille Laigle, Edi Kissling, et al.. Methoni Mw 6.8 rupture and aftershocks distribution from a dense array of OBS and land seismometers, offshore SW Hellenic subduction. Tectonophysics, 2020, 796, pp.228643. ⟨10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228643⟩. ⟨hal-03083046⟩
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