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Greece is a country in which more than 50% of all seismic energy of Europe is released. This is equivalent to 2% of the seismic energy of the world, whereas Greece covers only 0.09% of the world’ s surface. It has been estimated that in Greece an earthquake of M > 5R happens every 15 days. The reason is that Greece is situated at the front of a collision between two major plates: the African and the Euro-Asian.
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Mariolakos, I. (1990). The Impact of Neotectonics with Regard to Canals, Pipelines, Dams, Open Reservoirs, etc. in Active Areas: The Case of the Hellenic Arc. In: Paepe, R., Fairbridge, R.W., Jelgersma, S. (eds) Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought. NATO ASI Series, vol 325. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0701-0_24
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