The Role of Post-Earthquake Fluid Pressure in Driving the 2021 Thessaly (Greece) Aftershock Sequence

Xiaoge Liu; Lei Xie; Ao Zheng; Yong Zheng; Thanushika Gunatilake; Jiuyuan Yang; Lijia He; Athanassios Ganas

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Journal of Earth Science ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6) :2836 -2841. DOI: 10.1007/s12583-025-2041-0

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The Role of Post-Earthquake Fluid Pressure in Driving the 2021 Thessaly (Greece) Aftershock Sequence

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¹State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection, College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, 610059, Chengdu, China

²School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, 410083, Changsha, China

³School of Resources and Geosciences, China University of Mining and Technology, 221116, Xuzhou, China

⁴State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 430074, Wuhan, China

⁵Earth Science Department, Science Faculty, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

⁶College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power, 450046, Zhengzhou, China

⁷Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang, Singapore

⁸Institute of Geodynamics, National Observatory of Athens, Lofos Nymfon, Thission, 11810, Athens, Greece

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Xiaoge Liu, Lei Xie, Ao Zheng, Yong Zheng, Thanushika Gunatilake, Jiuyuan Yang, Lijia He, Athanassios Ganas. The Role of Post-Earthquake Fluid Pressure in Driving the 2021 Thessaly (Greece) Aftershock Sequence. Journal of Earth Science, 2025, 36(6): 2836-2841 DOI:10.1007/s12583-025-2041-0

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