Maria Mesimeri

Dr. Maria Mesimeri

Swiss Seismological Service, Zürich, Switzerland
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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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10 September 2020 in Geophysical Research Letters
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GPGuanning Pang
Guanning Pang
KKKeith D. Koper
Keith D. Koper
Maria MesimeriMaria Mesimeri
Maria Mesimeri
KPKristine L. Pankow
Kristine L. Pankow
BBBen Baker
Ben Baker
CDChristopher DuRoss
Christopher DuRoss
The 18 March 2020 Mw 5.7 Magna earthquake near Salt Lake City, Utah, offers a rare glimpse into the subsurface geometry of the Wasatch fault system—one of the world's longest active normal faults and a major source of seismic hazard in northern Utah. We analyze the Magna earthquake sequence and resolve oblique‐normal slip on a shallow (30–35°) west‐dipping fault at ~9‐ to 12‐km depth. Combined with near‐surface geological observations of steep dip (~70°), our results support a curved, or listric, fault shape. High‐precision aftershock locations show the activation of multiple, low‐angle (<30–35°) structures, indicating the existence of a complicated fault system. Our observations constrain the deep structure of the Wasatch fault system and suggest that ground shaking in the Salt Lake City region in future Wasatch fault earthquakes may be higher than previously estimated.

3 July 2017 in Pure and Applied Geophysics
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Eleftheria PapadimitriouEleftheria Papadimitriou
Eleftheria Papadimitriou
VKV. Karakostas
V. Karakostas
Maria MesimeriMaria Mesimeri
Maria Mesimeri
Gerasimos ChouliarasGerasimos Chouliaras
Gerasimos Chouliaras
CKChristos Kourouklas
Christos Kourouklas

14 October 2017 in Geophysical Journal International
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Maria MesimeriMaria Mesimeri
Maria Mesimeri
VKVassilios Karakostas
Vassilios Karakostas
Eleftheria PapadimitriouEleftheria Papadimitriou
Eleftheria Papadimitriou
GTGeorge Tsaklidis
George Tsaklidis
KJKatrina Jacobs
Katrina Jacobs
Recent seismicity (2008–2014) taking place in the Gulf of Corinth and recorded, since the establishment of the Hellenic Unified Seismological Network is relocated in this study. All the available P and S manually picked phases along with the waveforms of 55 broad-band, three-component seismological stations were used. The relocation is performed using the double difference method with differential times derived from phase-picked data and waveform cross-correlation. The accuracy of the relocated catalogue, estimated using a bootstrap approach, is of the order of few hundred metres. In an attempt to define the stress regime in the area, we compute moment tensors of 72 earthquakes with ML ≥ 3.0 and use them to calculate the total seismic moment tensor. A dominant strike of 270° that found in the westernmost part, was changed to 270°–290° at the centre of the gulf, perpendicular to the almost N–S extension of the rift. Further to the east, a gradual change in fault orientation is observed. In the easternmost part, the strike becomes 240°, in agreement with the geometry of the rift. The highly accurate earthquake catalogue, consisting of ∼26 000 events, reveals two patterns of activity in the western Corinth Gulf, namely, strongly clustered seismicity in both space and time in shallow depths and below that activity a very narrow shallow north-dipping seismic zone. Earthquake clusters, mainly located in the western study area, are identified using CURATE algorithm and associated with different north or south-dipping fault segments. The seismicity in the shallow north-dipping seismic zone, defined in detail in this study, is continuous and free of earthquake clusters. This continuous activity most probably defines the boundaries between brittle and ductile layers. The central and eastern parts of the study area mainly accommodate spatiotemporal clusters.

16 December 2015 in Journal of Seismology
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Maria MesimeriMaria Mesimeri
Maria Mesimeri
VKV. Karakostas
V. Karakostas
Eleftheria PapadimitriouEleftheria Papadimitriou
Eleftheria Papadimitriou
DSD. Schaff
D. Schaff
GTG. Tsaklidis
G. Tsaklidis

1 September 2019 in Tectonophysics
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Maria MesimeriMaria Mesimeri
Maria Mesimeri
VKVassilios Karakostas
Vassilios Karakostas
EPEleftheria Papadimitriou
Eleftheria Papadimitriou
GTGeorge Tsaklidis
George Tsaklidis