SISCOR project : Seismicity in the western Rift of Corinth, Greece

Anaïs SCHNEIDER, Christian BECK — 2011-09-26T07:39:00Z

Disasters, seismic dynamics, and seismic/seismic couplings of a fault system active in the western region of the Corinth Rift, Greece.

Duaration : 2011 - 2014
Coordinator : Pascal Bernard (IPGP)
Contact at ISTerre : Christian Beck
ISTerre team involved : Fault mechanics
External collaborations :

ENS
GEOAZUR
IPGPInstitut de physique du globe de paris
IRSNInstitut de radioprotection et de surete nucleaire
CRPG

The SISCOR project aims to provide new observations and advanced methodologies to refine prediction laws and physical models of earthquake generation and fault activity, including transient phenomena, at various spatial and temporal scales. The selected region is the western part of the Corinth Rift (Greece), one of the seismic regions in Europe, where destructive earthquakes are expected within a few decades. For 20 years, this region has been the target of intensive French and European research, combining seismology, geodesy, tectonics, sedimentology and geophysics. This motivated the launch of the Corinth Rift Laboratory (CRL) in 2000, strongly supported by CNRS/INSU and French laboratories, as well as by the EC. In 2009, this site was recognized as an "instrumented site" for long-term monitoring. The SISCOR project will allow a qualitative leap in the understanding and resolution of mechanical processes. It brings together the multidisciplinary expertise of 6 main organisations (IPGP, ENS, GEOAZUR, IRSN, CRPG, LGCA), with the collaboration of foreign groups (Belgium, Greece, Italy, U.K).

Source : Présentation site web ANR

To know more :

Figure 1 : Contexte seismotectonique du rift de corinth, avec failles et séismicité.

ISTerre - Institut des Sciences de la Terre

SISCOR project : Seismicity in the western Rift of Corinth, Greece