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IUGG XXIV General Assembly July 2-13, 2007 Perugia, Italy<br />

(S) - <strong>IASPEI</strong> - International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's<br />

Interior<br />

JSS004 Oral Presentation 1899<br />

The use of morphotectonic data to infer seimotectonic parameters of<br />

normal faults in Crete, Greece<br />

Prof. Riccardo Caputo<br />

Dept. Earth Sciences University of Ferrara <strong>IASPEI</strong><br />

Monaco C., Tortorici L.<br />

Morphotectonic features reveal recent seismic activity on normal faults on Crete allowing slip-rates,<br />

palaeoearthquake magnitudes and earthquake recurrence intervals to be inferred. The investigated<br />

faults show major escarpments (100s m high, 10s km long), separating uplifted Mesozoic rocks from<br />

Quaternary deposits. During Holocene, slip-rates out-paced erosion/sedimentation rates and 5-15 m-<br />

high fresh scarps formed at the base of the major escarpments. Based on our field observations and<br />

following empirical relationships between magnitude, surface rupture length and maximum co-seismic<br />

vertical displacement, it is possible to infer some of the principal seismotectonic parameters of the<br />

investigated faults. Long-term slip-rates range between 0.5 and 1.3 mm/a, maximum expected<br />

magnitudes between 6.3 and 6.6 (or 6.5-6.8, considering the worst case scenario), while mean<br />

recurrence intervals range betweenca. 260and870 years. These geologically-inferred estimates are<br />

comparable with those obtained by geodetic datathe historical and instrumental seismicity allowing to<br />

improve seismic hazard estimates in Crete.<br />

Keywords: holocene, fault scarps, seismic hazard

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