Fault structure determination: MATLAB scripts for determining fault orientation from seismicity distribution

MATLAB scripts used to determine the fault orientation based on the seismicity distribution

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GCMD keywords
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > EARTHQUAKES
  • name: EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > TECTONICS > PLATE TECTONICS > FAULT MOVEMENT
Dataset Center https://dataportal.igf.edu.pl
Maintainer Data Steward
Dataset PI
  • PI name: Beata Orlecka-Sikora PI email: orleckafoo(at)igf.edu.pl PI ORCID: 0000-0002-0182-1455 PI Institution: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences PI Department: Seismology
Dataset Owner
  • Owner name: Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences Owner address: Ksiecia Janusza 64, Warsaw, Poland
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Dataset status Complete
Activity type
    Access constraint Open
    Embargo
    Dataset modified 2026-10-02
    Metadata created
    Quality statement Not quality controlled
    Quality Editor
    • Editor name: Igor Szumny Editor email: igor.szumnyfoo(at)igf.edu.pl Editor ORCID: 0009-0004-4605-7018 Editor Institution: Institute of Gephysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
    Spatial distribution { "features": [ { "geometry": { "coordinates": [ [ [ 25.3, 36.3 ], [ 26.2, 36.3 ], [ 26.2, 36.9 ], [ 25.3, 36.9 ], [ 25.3, 36.3 ] ] ], "type": "Polygon" }, "properties": { "name": "Obszar: 25.3\u201326.2\u00b0E, 36.3\u201336.9\u00b0N" }, "type": "Feature" } ], "type": "FeatureCollection" }
    Region Santorini–Amorgos zone, Aegean Sea, Greece
    Start time 2025-01-01 00:00 CET
    End time 2025-03-14 00:00 CET
    Dataset citation Orlecka-Sikora, B. (2026). Fault structure determination: MATLAB scripts for determining fault orientation from seismicity distribution [Software]. IG PAS Data Portal, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.25171/InstGeoph_PAS_IGData_seismology-2026-021
    Dataset DOI 10.25171/InstGeoph_PAS_IGData_seismology-2026-021
    External resource
    • Resource URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15111649 Resource description: The 2025 Santorini–Amorgos NLL-SSST-coherence high-precision relocated earthquake catalogue is available at (Karakostas et al., 2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15111649)
    Publication
    • Publication title: Orlecka-Sikora, B., Papadimitriou, E., Karakostas, V., & Kostoglou, A. Dyke-induced fault activation in the 2025 Santorini–Amorgos seismic crisis: structural architecture and cascading activation of a transtensional fault network. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (under review).
    Project
    • Project title: TrackPreQuake Grant No. OPUS 2024/55/B/ST10/01041, Agreement No. UMO-2024/55/B/ST10/01041