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Spatio-temporal stress changes and interactions between adjacent fault segments consist of the most important component in seismic hazard assessment, as they can alter the occurrence probability of strong earthquake onto these segments. The investigation of the interactions between adjacent areas by means of the linked stress release model is attempted for moderate earthquakes (M ≥ 5.2) in the Corinth Gulf and the Central Ionian Islands (Greece). The study areas were divided in two subareas, based on seismotectonic criteria. The seismicity of each subarea is investigated by means of a stochastic point process and its behavior is determined by the conditional intensity function, which usually gets an exponential form. A conditional intensity function of Weibull form is used for identifying the most appropriate among the models (simple, independent and linked stress release model) for the interpretation of the earthquake generation process. The appropriateness of the models was decided after evaluation via the Akaike information criterion. Despite the fact that the curves of the conditional intensity functions exhibit similar behavior, the use of the exponential-type conditional intensity function seems to fit better the data.
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The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to Prof. Tsaklidis for his valuable comments and critically reading of the manuscript. The maps were produced using the GMT software (Wessel and Smith 1998) Geophysics Department contribution 000.
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Mangira, O., Vasiliadis, G. & Papadimitriou, E. Application of a linked stress release model in Corinth Gulf and Central Ionian Islands (Greece). Acta Geophys. 65, 517–531 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11600-017-0031-z
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