Active faulting at the Corinth Canal based on surface observations, borehole data and paleoenvironmental interpretations. Passive rupture during the 1981 earthquake sequence?

The most important active fault that crosses the Corinth Canal is studied in detail, involving surface observations, borehole data and paleoenvironmental interpretations. This fault intersects and/or is parallel and at short distances from major infrastructure facilities such as the Athens–Corinth highway, the railway and the Corinth Canal. It is a secondary structure accommodating displacement between the other major E–W trending active faults. It exerts an influence on the topography and the stratigraphy, backtilting Middle Pleistocene sediments on its immediate footwall, showing also significant synsedimentary activity. It has a short length (~ 5.5 km) and is not expected to produce extensive primary surface ruptures and large displacements (