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At September 7th 1999, an earthquake with a magnitude of Mw=5.9 struck mainly the western suburbs of Athens (Greece). In this paper, an attempt for the description of the morphotectonic evolution of the area affected by the earthquake is made. This attempt is based on observations concerning the general morphotectonic structure of Attica and on data concerning the geological — alpine and post-alpine — formations and structure. It is shown that the regional stress field has to be more complicated than a pure extensional regime, so that the geometry and kinematics of the area are interpreted sufficiently.
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Mariolakos, I., Fountoulis, I. (2002). The Athens Earthquake September 7, 1999 Neotectonic Regime and Geodynamic Phenomena. In: Görür, N., Papadopoulos, G.A., Okay, N. (eds) Integration of Earth Science Research on the Turkish and Greek 1999 Earthquakes. NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0383-4_9
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