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Due to the initiation of the Hellenic Unified Seismic Network (HUSN) in late 2007, the quality of observation significantly improved by 2011. For example, the representative magnitude level considerably has decreased and the number of annually recorded events has increased. The new observational system highly expanded the possibilities for studying regularities in seismicity. In view of this, the authors revisited their studies of the diurnal periodicity of representative earthquakes in Greece that was revealed earlier in the earthquake catalog before 2011. We use 18 samples of earthquakes of different magnitudes taken from the catalog of Greek earthquakes from 2011 to June 2016 to derive a series of the number of earthquakes for each of them and calculate its average diurnal course. To increase the reliability of the results, we compared the data for two regions. With a high degree of statistical significance, we have obtained that no diurnal periodicity can be found for strongly representative earthquakes. This finding differs from the estimates obtained earlier from an analysis of the catalog of earthquakes at the same area for 1995–2004 and 2005–2010, i.e., before the initiation of the Hellenic Unified Seismic Network. The new results are consistent with the hypothesis of noise discrimination (observational selection) explaining the cause of the diurnal variation of earthquakes with different sensitivity of the seismic network in daytime and nighttime periods.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Desherevskii, A.Ya. Sidorin, 2016, published in Geofizicheskie Protsessy i Biosfera, 2016, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 27–42.
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Desherevskii, A.V., Sidorin, A.Y. On the Diurnal Periodicity of Representative Earthquakes in Greece: Comparison of Data from Different Observation Systems. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 53, 724–733 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433817070039
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