New mapping of seismic faults
Scientists from the National Observatory of Athens (ΕΑΑ) and from New Zealand, using Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) from the Hellenic Land Registry, have systematically mapped the whole country with the aim of recording the active seismic faults in terrestrial Greece. The scientists discovered hundreds of new seismic faults, while obtaining fuller details of already known ones, creating Active Faults Greece (AFG), the first such database in Greece, which was compiled on the basis of the seismic imprint of faults on the landscape and was published in the authoritative journal Scientific Data.