CGPS time-series and trajectories of crustal motion along the West Hellenic Arc

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Jan 2006

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Geophysical Journal International, Volume 164, Issue 18, pp. 182-191.

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Western Greece is one of the seismotectonically most active regions in Europe. The main tectonic structures are the West Hellenic Arc (WHA) and the Kephalonia Fault Zone. In order to monitor and understand the crustal movements in space and time, a continuous GPS network was installed. In this paper we present results of 6 yr (1995-2001) of measurements. To ensure a consistent reference frame, 54 mainly European IGS and EUREF sites were included in the processing. A selected subset was used to estimate an Euler pole for the rotation of Eurasia. In order to obtain coordinate time-series of high precision that are representative for crustal deformation, special emphasis was given to the elimination of non-tectonic effects. Four steps of improvement were pursued, including a reprocessing after exclusion of poor data, the removal of remaining outliers, the correction of unknown phase centre offsets after antenna changes and weighted common-mode filtering. With this procedure, non-tectonic irregularities were reduced significantly, and the precision was improved by an average of 40 per cent. The final time-series are used as a base for depicting trajectories of crustal motion, interpreting the temporal behaviour of the sites and for estimating velocities. For the first time, height changes in the WHA area were detected and quantified by GPS. Sites that are located near the epicentres of the 1997 Strofades (Mw= 6.6) and the 1999 Athens (Mw= 6.0) earthquakes are particularly considered.

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