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Earthquake catalog and continuous waveforms from a two-week distributed acoustic sensing experiment on Kefalonia Island, Greece
Institute of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Emanuele Bozzi
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Marco P. Roth
Institute of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Sonja Gaviano
Seismix srl, Palermo, Italy
Giulio Pascucci
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Francesco Grigoli
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ettore Biondi
Geophysics Department, Stanford University, 397 Panama Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Efthimios Sokos
Department of Geology, Seismological Laboratory, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Rebecca M. Harrington
Institute of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
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This study uses two weeks of new distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) data together with recordings from the Hellenic Unified Seismic Network to construct a detailed catalog of small earthquakes around Kefalonia Island (Greece). The analysis identifies and locates thousands of microearthquakes, many clustered offshore northwest of Kefalonia. The publicly available dataset includes the earthquake catalog and continuous DAS waveforms.
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