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Changes of gross gamma-ray intensity in a submarine spring system due to a distant earthquake event on 30th of March 2019 at Itea, Greece

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A medium resolution underwater in-situ gamma-ray spectrometer (GeoMAREA) was deployed in the submarine spring (Kiveri) for continuous monitoring of the gross gamma-ray intensity enriched in groundwater. The gross gamma-ray intensity was elaborated for earthquake study using the Rayleigh Probability Distribution Function. Gross γ-ray intensity had increased gradually since 10 days before the earthquake (Itea, 30/3/2019), in which the Rayleigh probability distribution gave weak and strong anomalies 52 h 20 min and 7 h 20 min before the earthquake, respectively. The anomaly of gross gamma-ray intensity was observed for short period of time which was returned to pre-earthquake values after the earthquake.

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Christos Tsabaris would like to thank Peloponnesus Prefecture and the municipality of Argos-Mykinon for supporting the implementation of all appropriate tasks for the monitoring operations and the surveillance of in-situ sensor platform. Christos Tsabaris would like to acknowledge Mr. Spyridon Mavroyannis for supporting the field operation in the unit of water supply and especially for his technical assistance he gave during the experimental field work. Acknowledgements are given to the ITO ltd CEO for supporting us with appropriate underwater in-situ nuclear instrumentation. The author would like also to acknowledge Mr. Stylianos Alexakis for the technical support throughout the realization of the work and the colleagues from Radiomariners’ group of IO-HCMR (Ms Filothei Pappa and Mr. G. Eleftheriou) for the preparation of experimental set up. The author would also like to acknowledge a citizen at the monitoring area named Mr. Ioannis Floros, for providing appropriate information before, during and after the quake event. The data were acquired in the frame of ANAVALOS project (MIS 5005218) and are re-used for the objectives of this work.

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Tsabaris, C. Changes of gross gamma-ray intensity in a submarine spring system due to a distant earthquake event on 30th of March 2019 at Itea, Greece. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 330, 755–763 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-021-08057-4

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