Found inside – Page 535Pilidou, S., K. Preistley, J. Jackson, and A. Maggi, 2004. The 1996 Cyprus earthquake: a large, deep event in the Cyprean arc, Geophys. Found inside1974 1975 1976 1977 1979 1980 1981 1983 1984 1985 1986 1988 1989 1990 1992 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Greek military coup against Makarios. August 11, 1999 - 5.6 The highest registered in recent years was a magnitude of 6.3 in 1996 but it caused little damage. Found inside – Page 100... February 13, 1756, intensity VI and June 26, 1926, MS 7.4 Hellenic Arc earthquakes, October 9, 1996, MW 6.8 Cyprus earthquake, and October 12, 2013, ... northeast. The central part of the project area undergoes different pattern of deformation where most of the seismic activity is confined within the crust and the dominant focal mechanisms are strike-slip and reverse faulting resulting from north to northeast compression and south- to southeast extension. Found inside... Dimensions of the Area of Studya Varying Nuweiba earthquake, Cyprus Earthquake. the Center 1995 1996 and arm urn )er arm um er Dimensions Success Time, ... Some areas lost power and cracks in the building occured on the south of Turkey and on the north of Cyprus. From this search a number of buildings were identified as conforming to the EMS-98 description of damage levels. The results from the inversions showed that in all five cases the focal mechanism was exhibiting only minor differences when compared to the other available solutions. Found inside – Page 93For the restoration of damages caused to houses and premises from the earthquakes of 1995 , 1996 and 1999 , the applications submitted were 3500 , 10500 and ... These problems have comprised cracking and displacement to the ground, pavements, roads, walls and buildings, leading to the abandonment of the most seriously-affected houses. If the item you plan to reuse is not part of a published article (e.g., a featured issue image), then please indicate the originator of the work, and the volume, issue, and date of the journal in which the item appeared. The goal of our repository is to collect, capture, disseminate and preserve the results of research in the fields of Atmosphere, Cryosphere, Hydrosphere and Solid Earth. The highest registered in recent years was a magnitude of 6.3 in 1996 but it caused little damage. In order to investigate this dependency, we selected five moderate to large (Mw ˜ 5.0-6.4) earthquakes based on the following two criteria: (1) the available moment tensor solutions for these events reported by the Harvard CMT group, the USGS and/or the Swiss Seismological Service showed good agreement with each other, (2) the events should occur in geographically different parts of the Greek region. (2004) 158, 85-97 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2004.02248.x The 1996 Cyprus earthquake: a large, deep event in the Cyprean Arc Sylvana Pilidou, Keith Priestley, James Jackson and Alessia Maggi Bullard Laboratories, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0EZ, UK. Found inside – Page 30... due to disorders along -1 Cyprus' “Green line”, a particularly -1 severe three-year drought, and a strong -2 Core inflation earthquake in October 1996. Found inside – Page 98Leukosia: Imprinta Ltd. Constantinou, Stavros T. 1996. ... “Evolution of the Population Centers of Cyprus, 1878–1960. ... Earthquake, in Western Cyprus. Being located on the boundary between Eurasian and African plates, Cyprus was affected by many destructive earthquakes throughout its history. The motion east of Cyprus is nearly parallel Found inside – Page 589Greece (A ̊str€om and Demakopoulou, 1996; Catling, 1981; Kilian, 1996; Mylonas, ... coast of Cyprus, has revealed compelling evidence of earthquake victims. Unfortunately, due to the lack of data from previous Cyprean earthquakes, it was not possible to conclude to precise attenuation. Or, try our Real-time Notifications, Feeds, and Web Services . Severely damaged by an earthquake in 342 AD and despite the fact that most of Nea Paphos was restored, the city was unable to function as a capital by the . The properties of the Nicosia marl, while important in controlling the behaviour of the ground on a site-by-site basis, were considered to be aggravating factors in the context of the landslide displacement(s) affecting the slope as a whole. We implemented the moment tensor dataset for Cyprus region by computing 18 new solutions for earthquakes which occurred from 1977 to 1996 with magnitude greater than 4.8. For global real time earthquake reports see the US GSD map here. The results show that there is no obvious correlation between seasonal or sharp fluctuations in the water level and the seismicity of the region (except once during 1989). Thus, a detailed examination of the seismic activity is made and this is compared to the seismotectonic regime of the region and the reservoir loading from 1976 to 1995. Reports say that another a weaker earthquake of magnitude 2.0 on the Richter scale was recorded earlier on Thursday morning, northwest of Cyprus. Found inside – Page 4-20... effects of earthquake ground motions ( Golder Associates , Inc. , 1996a ) . ... No paleontological ( fossil ) resources are known to occur 4-20 Cyprus ... Most of the sites are of normal geomagnetic polarity, but indications of reversed polarity have been found in an older group of sediments (the Lefkara Formation of Upper Palaeocene age). My everyday tasks included providing full structural design calculations for building regulation submission, preparing drawings and details, utilising engineering analysis software to . These depths are consistent with shallow subduction as the African plate, west of Cyprus, penetrates beneath the Anatolian plate. We determine the centroid depths for the Mw=6.8, October 9, 1996, Cyprus earthquake and its largest after‐shock to 32 and 27 km, respectively, by modeling P and SH waveforms. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, significantly, but they vary according to the period of observation as both depend on the number and quality of the seismological stations consisting the network. Although the aftershock activity lasted over four months and included a large number of earthquakes with magnitudes 4.5 and greater, only the largest aftershock of January 13, 1997, having a magnitude of 5.9, triggered two of these five accelerographs. Cyprus is situated in a zone that is periodically affected by mostly minor tremors, with stronger ones not being very common. We examine the source mechanisms and depths of the largest earthquake that has occurred in the vicinity of Cyprus in the last 50 years, the 1996 October 9 earthquake (M w = 6.8) and its principal aftershock on October 10 (M w = 5.8). One of them, the Polyphyto dam, is located only 40 km from the epicenter of the 13 May earthquake.In the present work all available seismological aspects of. Although a general fitting to the attenuation curves for subduction events and strike-slip/reverse fault events was found, the calculated peak ground accelerations were found to be lower than others. Found inside – Page 288Among these larger issues, that of Cyprus' own cultural geography is ... for centuries to describe the devastating earthquake of 1222.10 Yet surviving ... 5.2 earthquake - Eastern Mediterranean, 45 km southwest of Paphos, Pafos, Cyprus, on Wednesday, October 9, 1996 at 14:00 (GMT) Severely damaged by an earthquake in 342 AD and despite the fact that most of Nea Paphos was restored, the city was unable to function as a capital by the . No-one was injured. This temporal evolution is found to be in good agreement with the Mesozoic and Tertiary movements of the African lithospheric plate relative to Europe, as evidenced from the Atlantic sea-floor magnetic anomaly spreading history. the main event, such as focal properties and source parameters together with foreshock and aftershock characteristics of the earthquake sequence are considered in order to examine whether the water level changes behind the Polyphyto dam induced the unusual seismic activity in this area. Dogan Kalafat. The area is located at the northwestern part of the Greek mainland.To investigate the 3-D crustal velocity structure of the region, a two-step tomographic procedure has been applied. This paper presents indicative results from the numerical investigation of two special issues of the seismic behaviour of base-isolated buildings, using custom-made software that utilizes modern object-oriented design approaches. Israel, which lies just 472 kilometers (293 miles) across the Mediterranean Sea, also felt shocks from the quake. Download PDF. Cyprus was rocked by its strongest earthquake in 16 years on Wednesday, sending some office workers scurrying into the streets but with no immediate reports of casualties, authorities said. These depths . (1999) and Algermissen andRogers (2004)are the only two studies in the literature that made an attempt to identify the suitable attenuation relationships for Cyprus based on strong motion and macroseismic data available. Found inside – Page 198Earthquakes were another disrupting factor in Greece, causing serious damage to ... 1996)11 suggest that an earthquake storm may have occurred at that time. 6.5. We examine the source mechanisms and depths of the largest earthquake that has occurred in the vicinity of Cyprus in the last 50 years, the 1996 October 9 earthquake (M w = 6.8) and its principal aftershock on October 10 (M w = 5.8).Being the first large event in the area for which seismic data from the global digital network are available, it provides an excellent opportunity to study the . This catalogue contains more than 59,000 earthquakes recorded and located by the seismological network of the Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens. Cyprus is an in earthquake-prone zone but strong tremors are not common. 1996-11-27 00:44:23 UTC 5.4 magnitude, 33 km depth Paphos, Pafos, Cyprus 5.4 magnitude earthquake 1996-11-27 00:44:23 UTC at 00:44 November 27, 1996 UTC Found insideU.S. Human Rights Groups Take A Stand on Cyprus Twenty prominent human rights ... accepted relief assistance worth over $ 1 million for earthquake victims . In the first, a search was made in the archives of the Cyprus Earthquake Rehabilitation Service, which contained files of buildings damaged by the earthquakes of 1995, 1996 and 1999 that occurred in Cyprus. data set consists of the travel time residuals of 366 very well located earthquakes, recorded by at least seven stations of a portable network, which was installed at the Kozani-Grevena broader region by the Institute of Geodynamics, immediately after the shock of 13 May, 1995. Working full time in a local firm of Consulting Engineers as a Civil Engineer. A short summary of this paper. All rights reserved. Twenty people were slightly injured and two lost their lives from indirect causes. of damage. Cyprus lies in an active seismic zone where it's estimated that 15% of the world's earthquakes occur. Found inside – Page 758Report of the Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, ... for Concrete Structures, Technical Chamber of Greece, Limasol, Cyprus. Subduction process along the western flank of the Cyprean arc is active and effective beneath the Gulf of Antalya. The one in 1953 in Paphos resulted in 63 deaths and measured 6.5 on the Richter Scale, the one in 1995 resulted in two deaths and measured 5.8 on the Richter Scale and the one in 1996 didn't result in any victims but measured 6.5 on the Richter Scale. The February 23, 1995 ( M s =5.8) and October 9, 1996 ( M s =6.8) events took place to the northwest and southwest of Cyprus. It is furthermore concluded that the northward translation of Cyprus of ∼ 15° mostly took place during the last ∼ 30 Ma. normal faulting mechanisms. Being the first large event in the area for which seismic data from the global digital network are available, it provides an excellent opportunity to study the . "Cyprus is an earthquake-prone zone but strong tremors are not common. 5.6 M w. VII. There were damage reports especially from Paphos and Limassol. 6.8 earthquake - Eastern Mediterranean, 37 km southwest of Paphos, Pafos, Cyprus, on Wednesday, 9 October 1996 at 13:10 (GMT) Cyprus lies in an earthquake zone but large tremors are infrequent. The Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens in cooperation with the Geological Survey of Cyprus deployed five digital accelerographs in order to record large aftershocks. Our data is the broadband waveforms recorded at the seismic stations run by Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake, Three-dimensional velocity structure of the upper crust was determined by inversion of P-waves travel time in the area of the Aliakmon river basin, where a strong earthquake of Ms = 6.6 occurred on May 13, 1995. The largest earthquakes mostly occurred at the southern part of the island, causing damage in Paphos, Limassol, and Famagusta (e.g., the earthquakes of 342 with magnitude Mw 7.4, 1222 with Mw 6.8, 1577 with Mw 6.7, 1785 with Mw 7.1, 1940 with Mw 6.7, and 1996 with Mw 6.7 (Galanopoulos and Delibasis 1965;Ambraseys 1992; Determination of Ground Motion Predictive Equations for the Greek area based on pga, pgv and various psa's depending on period. Moreover another digital accelerograph, operated by the Water Development Department of Cyprus, was triggered and this record was also taken into account in this study. Found inside – Page 195The catalog of Southern California earthquakes from the NEIC Hypocenter Database CD - ROM ( 1932-1994 ) was used ... Dead Sea Transform and Cyprus . Various explanations have been given to account for the observed phenomena at Limnes, including the effects of underground water, settlement, slope instability, cyclical shrink-swell, seepage erosion and dissolution. Abstract. These results points out three distinct patterns of deformation undergoing in the western, central and eastern part of the project region. The intermediate depth seismic activity beneath the Gulf of Antalya exhibits mostly reverse and strike slip faulting resulting from NE compression while the shallow seismic activity show predominantly normal faulting. In 1995 there was a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in western Paphos, with 2 dead and houses collapsing in the villages Pano Arodes and Miliou (both in Paphos). The velocity at shallow depths seems to be affected from the surface geology. The analysis of the data reveals conjugate extensional directions from NW-SE in Mio-Pliocene and NE-SW to N-S in Quaternary up to present. International Journal of Computational Methods & Experimental Measurements, Vol. the 1996 Cyprus earthquake would explain the lack of deep earthquakes [Ambraseys and Adams, 1993] be- neath Cyprus. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook southwestern Cyprus in 1996 and left two people dead and two injured, while Paphos and Limassol suffered limited damage. — A devastating earthquake in Palea Paphos (Kuklia). InSAR satellite movement monitoring data were analysed for the Limnes area and the outcome vindicated the geomorphological interpretation and helped strengthen the ground model that embodied slope failure as the underlying cause of damage. Cyprus is an in earthquake-prone zone but strong tremors are not common. In most cases, appropriate attribution can be provided by simply citing the original article. It is a collaborative project between Greece (ITSAK, NOA-IG, AUTH & D, We investigate the seismotectonic features resulting directly and indirectly from the interaction between the northeast moving African plate and the westward moving Anatolian block focusing mainly offshore and onshore of the region between the Fethiye Bay and the Gulf of Antalya. Found inside – Page 633The 1996 Cyprus earthquake : a large , deep event in the Cyprean Arc . Geophysical Journal International , 158 ( 1 ) , 85–97 . The highest registered in recent years was a magnitude of 6.3 in 1996 but it caused little damage," Reuters highlighted. Research Institute. These depths are consistent with shallow subduction as the African plate, west of Cyprus, penetrates beneath the Anatolian plate. Please notice that some documents are protected by institutional policy. Very strong mag. We determine the centroid depths for the MW=6.8, October 9, 1996, Cyprus earthquake and its largest aftershock to 32 and 27 km, respectively, by modeling P and SH waveforms. Cyprus lies in an active seismic zone where it's estimated that 15% of the world's earthquakes occur. Buildings damaged / landslides. Cyprus is an in earthquake-prone zone but strong tremors are not common. 1996-10-09 14:00:10 UTC at 14:00 October 09, 1996 UTC Location: Epicenter at 34.496, 32.063 45.2 km from Paphos (28.2 miles) Eastern Mediterranean Sea The strongest earthquake in Cyprus for 2021 had a magnitude of 4.9 READ PAPER. Geophys. "Cyprus' last three major earthquakes occurred in 1953, 1995 and 1996. 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