3HAZ-Corinth

This project’s goal is to understand and quantify the various phenomena that may affect human activity skirting active rifts (earthquakes, landslides, submarine slides and tsunamis).

Past projects had led to the creation of a European laboratory conducting research on seismic risks in the Gulf of Corinth, monitoring active rifts, and studying fluids in the system.

As the Corinth rift is very young, researchers can track current phenomena back to its formation.

Several European research centers and industrial firms are involved in this project (AUTH University, CNRS GéoAzur, INGV, IPGP, IRSN and University of Paris VI are a few).

IFP’s role in this project involves analyzing syn-rift deposits in the large deltas to the west of the gulf with a view to understanding their evolution. It is studying the interaction between sea levels and erosion rates – which vary in synch with eustatic and climatic changes – on the delta’s slopes and on their stability. Findings will prove vital to understanding seismic and climatic phenomena on the rift’s skirts.

>> Further information: 3HAZ-Corinth project website