caa a22 4500 467936315 CHVBK 20180406152958.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11069-006-0023-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11069-006-0023-9 Archaeo- and palaeoseismological investigations in Northern Thessaly (Greece): Insights for the seismic potential of the region [Elektronische Daten] [Riccardo Caputo, Bruno Helly, Spyros Pavlides, Gerassimos Papadopoulos] Northern Thessaly may represent an important seismic gap within the broader Aegean Region, with major faults bordering the ESE-WNW trending Late Pleistocene-Holocene Tyrnavos Basin. In order to obtain information about the characteristics of past earthquakes and improve our knowledge on the seismic potential of the investigated area, historical and archaeological observations are analysed and compared with the results of palaeoseismological trenches excavated across one of the major bordering structures, the Tyrnavos Fault. The former data clearly document (i) a strong seismic activity affecting the area during the last 2-3ka and (ii) the occurrence of recent earthquakes not included in the seismic catalogues. Also, the sedimentological, structural and chronological data (TL, OSL and AMS) obtained from the palaeoseismological trenches indicate Late Pleistocene to Holocene morphogenic activity of the Tyrnavos Fault, characterised by vertical co-seismic displacements of 20-40cm and possible return periods of a few thousands of years. Advantages and limitations in using historical and archaeoseismological data are discussed, as well as the problems arising from analysing low slip-rate faults. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 Historical earthquakes nationallicence Trench nationallicence Paleoseismology nationallicence Displacements nationallicence Aegean region nationallicence Caputo Riccardo Di.S.G.G., University of Basilicata, Macchia Romana Campus, I-85100, Potenza, Italy aut Helly Bruno Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen Jean-Pouilloux, 7 rue Raulin, F-69007, Lyon, France aut Pavlides Spyros Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006, Thessaloniki, Greece aut Papadopoulos Gerassimos Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, GR-11810, Lofos Nymfon, Athens, Greece aut Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 39/2(2006-10-01), 195-212 0921-030X 39:2<195 2006 39 11069 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-0023-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-006-0023-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Caputo Riccardo Di.S.G.G., University of Basilicata, Macchia Romana Campus, I-85100, Potenza, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Helly Bruno Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen Jean-Pouilloux, 7 rue Raulin, F-69007, Lyon, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pavlides Spyros Department of Geology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54006, Thessaloniki, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Papadopoulos Gerassimos Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, GR-11810, Lofos Nymfon, Athens, Greece aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Natural Hazards Kluwer Academic Publishers 39/2(2006-10-01), 195-212 0921-030X 39:2<195 2006 39 11069 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer