Because of the recent news, these Friday links will deal with earthquake prediction. As in the L’Aquila case and in the Judgment Day “prophecy”, a reliable prediction is not possible until now. Repeat: NOT POSSIBLE! more
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What’s up? The Friday links (11)
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The Wednesday Centerfault (4)
2011-05-25 | in CenterfaultThis day’s Centerfault is the Sparta Fault in southern Greece (37.1°N 23.3°E). Being situated on the Peloponessus, the fault marks one of the most prominent geomorphological features of the peninsula. It is famous for the historical 464 BC earthquake that destroyed ancient Sparta. However, the days of Spartian glory ended much later after a severe military defeat in the battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, Sparta never fully recovered. more
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The Wednesday Centerfault (3)
2011-05-22 | in CenterfaultThis week´s Centerfault is the famous Arkitsa Fault in Greece (38.43°N, 23.00°E). Along this about 500 m long and locally more than 40 m high excavated limestone fault plane within Mesozoic platform carbonates are uplifted against Pliocene-Quaternary sediments.
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Registration and abstract submission open until 23rd of May 2011
2011-05-17 | in Corinth 2011Dear friends and colleagues, we have decided to leave the registration and abstract submission open until 23rd of May, 2011. We have already 87 registrations from more than 25 countries and a huge number of abstracts. So, if you like to submit, you are welcome.
For those, who are already planning the Corinth trip, here you will find the train schedule from the Airport of Athens to Corinth (Train schedule from Airport to Corinth station) and of course, the departure from Corinth to the airport (Train schedule from Corinth to the Airport).
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We are mobile now !
2011-05-13 | in paleoseismicity.orgAs already today a notably number of users visits paleoseismicity.org using their mobile device we now offer a mobile version of this site. Just enter http://m.paleoseismicity.org in your mobile browser and enjoy a small screen optimized version of this blog.
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Active and Inactive Faults
2011-05-06 | in The Friday Links | 12 responsesFollowing Tomas post let’s stay a little longer on the Corinth Canal. The 6 km long famous Corinth Canal despite being an amazing feat of engineering, since it was constructed 120 year ago, it’s also a geology field trip favourite because it is basically a MEGA TRENCH.
More than 40 faults can be identified some of them offsetting the entire sedimentary column, whereas others are confined within the lower sediments. Therefore, this photo shows a very nice example of an active and inactive fault within the same outcrop. You can rarely see something like that and this is a unique site where everybody can see and comprehend it.
It shows also that faults die. This is very important because there are numerous faults in the crust, however the majority of them are inactive (e.g. can not give an earthquake today, but they did so in the past). So for earthquake geologists their first major goal is to identify which of the faults they map are active (e.g. can generate earthquakes today and represent seismic sources).
Faults also die.
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The Wednesday Centerfault (2)
2011-05-05 | in CenterfaultThis week´s Centerfault is not a single fault or scarp but a very nice view from normal faults in an staircase style in the channel of Corinth (Corinth Canal), Greece (37.55°N, 22.59°E).The image shows the nice faults, which outcrop in the embankments of the channel. more