Likely Cause Of The Santorini Seismic Swarm: Geologist Analysis
Geology professor Shawn Willsey analyzes the recent earthquake swarm in the Aegean Sea near Santorini, Greece and provides a likely mechanism for the event.
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USGS Earthquakes: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=8.23334,-32.16797&extent=56.02301,74.70703
Regional beachballs: https://bbnet.gein.noa.gr/HL/seismicity/mts/revised-moment-tensors
Slab rollback paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-86063-y
GPS movement paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2022.907897/full
USGS seismic swarm: https://www.usgs.gov/news/what-earthquake-swarm
USGS 2017 Soda Springs, ID swarm: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/science/m53-2017-soda-springs-idaho-sequence
Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53285-3