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Accurate locations of aftershocks of the January 17, 1983 (M s=7.0) main shock in the Ionian islands have been determined, as well as fault plane solutions for this main shock and its largest aftershock, which are interpreted as a right-lateral, strike-slip motion with a thrust component, on a fault striking in about a NE-SW direction.
This is considered as a transform fault in the northwesternmost part of the Hellenic arc.
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Scordilis, E.M., Karakaisis, G.F., Karacostas, B.G. et al. Evidence for transform faulting in the Ionian sea: The Cephalonia island earthquake sequence of 1983. PAGEOPH 123, 388–397 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00880738
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