Tsunami Alert Efficiency in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: The 2 May 2020 Earthquake (Mw6.6) and Near-Field Tsunami South of Crete (Greece)

GA Papadopoulos, E Lekkas, KN Katsetsiadou… - GeoHazards, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Mediterranean tsunami warning system is based on national monitoring centers
(Tsunami Service Providers, TSPs) and operates under the IOC/UNESCO umbrella. For the …

Probabilistic tsunami risk assessment from incomplete and uncertain historical impact records: Mediterranean and connected seas

Ι Triantafyllou, GA Papadopoulos, A Kijko - Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2023 - Springer
Tsunami risk is considered as the probability of a particular coastline being struck by a
tsunami that may cause a certain level of impact (destructiveness). The impact metric of a …

The Mw = 6.6 earthquake and tsunami of south Crete on 2020 May 2

N Kalligeris, V Skanavis, NS Melis… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
On 2020 May 2, an M w= 6.6 earthquake struck about 63 km south of Ierapetra in Crete,
Greece. The earthquake generated a small tsunami which agitated local harbours. We …

Investigation of the factors controlling the duration and productivity of aftershocks following strong earthquakes in Greece

P Bonatis, VG Karakostas, EE Papadimitriou, G Kaviris - Geosciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Strong crustal earthquakes in Greece are typically followed by aftershocks, the properties of
which are important factors in seismic hazard assessment. In order to examine the …

Strong earthquakes and tsunami potential in the Hellenic Subduction Zone

I Triantafyllou, A Agalos, AG Samaras… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The tsunamigenic potential of an earthquake depends on its size, source depth and focal
mechanism. The Hellenic Subduction Zone (HSZ) has been selected in the paper to study …

Short-Term Foreshocks as Key Information for Mainshock Timing and Rupture: The Mw6.8 25 October 2018 Zakynthos Earthquake, Hellenic Subduction Zone

GA Papadopoulos, A Agalos, G Minadakis… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Significant seismicity anomalies preceded the 25 October 2018 mainshock (Mw= 6.8), NW
Hellenic Arc: a transient intermediate-term (~ 2 yrs) swarm and a short-term (last 6 months) …

Dynamic rupture modeling of large earthquake scenarios at the Hellenic Arc toward physics‐based seismic and tsunami hazard assessment

SA Wirp, AA Gabriel, T Ulrich… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mediterranean Hellenic Arc subduction zone (HASZ) has generated several
MW≥ M_W≥ 8 earthquakes and tsunamis. Seismic‐probabilistic tsunami hazard …

Characterization of fault plane and coseismic slip for the 2 May 2020, Mw 6.6 Cretan Passage earthquake from tide gauge tsunami data and moment tensor solutions

E Baglione, S Lorito, A Piatanesi… - … Hazards and Earth …, 2021 - nhess.copernicus.org
We present a source solution for the tsunami generated by the M w 6.6 earthquake that
occurred on 2 May 2020, about 80 km offshore south of Crete, in the Cretan Passage, on the …

New Observational Material about Seismic and Non-Seismic Tsunamis in Greece and Surrounding Areas from 1900 to 2023

I Triantafyllou, GA Papadopoulos - GeoHazards, 2024 - mdpi.com
A new set of observations has been compiled for tsunamis occurring in Greece and in the
surrounding areas from 1900 to 2023. A variety of information sources has been collected …

Introduction to “Twenty five years of modern tsunami science following the 1992 Nicaragua and Flores Island tsunamis, Volume II”

U Kânoğlu, Y Tanioka, EA Okal, MA Baptista… - Pure and Applied …, 2020 - Springer
Following the first volume (PAGEOPH, 2019, 176, No. 7), twenty-four papers on tsunamis
are included in the PAGEOPH topical issue “Twenty five years of modern tsunami science …