AFG - Active Faults Greece: a comprehensive geomorphology-based 1:25,000 fault database.

ABSTRACT: Greece is Europe's most seismically active country, as it is being deformed by an active subduction-system and one of the world's fastest-spreading continental rifts. Onshore active faults pose seismic-hazard that cannot be reliably assessed in the absence of a comprehensive map of potential earthquake sources. Here, we use high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), in conjunction with hillshades and slope-models, to map and characterise faults in Greece at a scale of 1:25000. The Active Faults Greece (AFG) database records 3815 fault-traces assigned to 892 interpreted faults. Of these traces, 53% were mapped here for the first time, with their geometries and slip-sense constrained by displacement of landscape features. AFG includes >2000 active and 1632 probably-active traces, while

SUBMITTER: Begg JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12639124 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature