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The Hellenic arc is one of the most active seismic zones in western Eurasia. [2] It has regularly been the source for magnitude 7 earthquakes in the last hundred years of instrumental recording and the location for at least two historical events that were probably of about magnitude 8 or more, the 365 Crete earthquake and the 1303 Crete earthquake.
The Hellenic Trench, with the inner South Aegean Volcanic Arc, and the outer non-volcanic Hellenic arc [1]: 34 . The Hellenic Trench (HT) is an oceanic trough located in the forearc of the Hellenic arc, an arcuate archipelago on the southern margin of the Aegean Sea plate, or Aegean Plate, also called Aegea, the basement of the Aegean Sea.
Tomographic data indicate that there is no link between the descending HSZ slab and those associated with either the Calabrian arc to the west or the Cyprus arc to the east. [2] However, a study of earthquake hypocentres suggests that the shallower part of the zone is continuous with the subduction zone west of Cyprus, with a developing slab ...
Arc, in geology a mountain chain configured as an arc due to a common orogeny along a plate margin or the effect of back-arc extension Hellenic arc, the arc of islands positioned over the Hellenic Trench in the Aegean Sea off Greece; Back-arc basin, a subsided region caused by back-arc extension
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In most classifications, Hellenic consists of Greek alone, [3] [4] but some linguists use the term Hellenic to refer to a group consisting of Greek proper and other varieties thought to be related but different enough to be separate languages, either among ancient neighboring languages [5] or among modern varieties of Greek. [6]
Hellenic is a synonym for Greek.It means either: of or pertaining to the Hellenic Republic (modern Greece) or Greek people (Hellenes, Greek: Έλληνες) and culture; of or pertaining to ancient Greece, ancient Greek people, culture and civilization.
While HGRS87 is still widely used for most civilian uses, [7] it is partly replaced by the new Hellenic Terrestrial Reference System 2007 or HTRS07 (SRID=96758). HTRS07, which was specified for the Hellenic Positioning System (HEPOS) project, is GPS based and is compatible with European Terrestrial Reference System 1989 (ETRS89).