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Efthimios Sokos

Efthimios Sokos

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Earth Science

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3393
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National Ranking
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Overview

Efthimios Sokos is affiliated with the University of Patras in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on earthquake and tectonic studies, alongside seismology and earthquake studies. With a total of 69 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Sokos has contributed notably to several subfields including geophysics, artificial intelligence applications, ocean engineering, civil and structural engineering, and management, monitoring, policy, and law related to geosciences.

Their work spans a range of topics, including earthquake detection and analysis, seismic waves and their interpretation, high-pressure geophysics and materials, geophysics and sensor technology, and geological and geochemical analysis. The diversity of these topics indicates a multidisciplinary approach within geosciences and seismology.

Sokos has published extensively in several scientific venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals and publications:

  • Seismological Research Letters
  • Annals of Geophysics
  • Tectonophysics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Communications Earth & Environment

The following recent papers exemplify some of their research output:

  • The 2018 Mw 6.8 Zakynthos, Greece, Earthquake: Dominant Strike-Slip Faulting near Subducting Slab, 2020, Seismological Research Letters
  • Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures, 2020, Science
  • Complex rupture dynamics on an immature fault during the 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake, Turkey, 2020, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Seismic Waveform Data from Greece and Cyprus: Integration, Archival, and Open Access, 2021, Seismological Research Letters
  • The Western Gulf of Corinth (Greece) 2020-2021 Seismic Crisis and Cascading Events: First Results from the Corinth Rift Laboratory Network, 2021, The Seismic Record

Efthimios Sokos collaborates frequently with several researchers including:

  • Jiří Zahradník
  • Vladimír Plicka
  • Christos Evangelidis
  • František Gallovič
  • A. Serpetsidaki

The range of Sokos's research and collaborations reflects a focus on seismic events and their underlying geophysical mechanisms, supported by data analysis and modeling techniques that intersect with artificial intelligence. Their scholarly efforts contribute to advancing the understanding of seismic activity particularly within the region of Greece and surrounding areas.

Best Publications

  • ISOLA a Fortran code and a Matlab GUI to perform multiple-point source inversion of seismic data

    Efthimios N. Sokos;Jiri Zahradnik

  • Global quieting of high-frequency seismic noise due to COVID-19 pandemic lockdown measures.

    Thomas Lecocq;Stephen P. Hicks;Koen Van Noten;Kasper van Wijk

  • Evaluating Centroid‐Moment‐Tensor Uncertainty in the New Version of ISOLA Software

    Efthimios Sokos;Jiří Zahradník

  • Iterative Deconvolution of Regional Waveforms and a Double-Event Interpretation of the 2003 Lefkada Earthquake, Greece

    Jirí Zahradník;Anna Serpetsidaki;Efthimios Sokos;G-Akis Tselentis

  • The tectonic setting and earthquake ground hazards of the 1993 Pyrgos earthquake, Peloponnese, Greece

    I. Koukouvelas;A. Mpresiakas;E. Sokos;T. Doutsos

  • Methane and hydrogen sulfide seepage in the northwest Peloponnesus petroliferous basin (Greece): Origin and geohazard

    Giuseppe Etiope;George Papatheodorou;Dimitris P. Christodoulou;George Ferentinos

  • The January 2010 Efpalio earthquake sequence in the western Corinth Gulf (Greece)

    E. Sokos;J. Zahradník;A. Kiratzi;J. Janský

  • Quick Fault-Plane Identification by a Geometrical Method: Application to the MW 6.2 Leonidio Earthquake, 6 January 2008, Greece

    Jirí Zahradnik;F. Gallovic;Efthimios Sokos;Anna Serpetsidaki

  • Strategy for automated analysis of passive microseismic data based on S-transform, Otsu's thresholding, and higher order statistics

    G-Akis Tselentis;Nikolaos Martakis;Paraskevas Paraskevopoulos;Athanasios Lois

  • Asperity break after 12 years: The Mw6.4 2015 Lefkada (Greece) earthquake

    E. Sokos;J. Zahradník;F. Gallovič;A. Serpetsidaki

  • Complex rupture dynamics on an immature fault during the 2020 Mw 6.8 Elazığ earthquake, Turkey

    František Gallovič;Jiří Zahradník;Vladimír Plicka;Efthimios Sokos

  • The April 2007 earthquake swarm near Lake Trichonis and implications for active tectonics in western Greece

    A. Kiratzi;E. Sokos;A. Ganas;A. Tselentis

  • The Egion June 15, 1995 (6.2M L ) earthquake, western Greece

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  • Moho topography under central Greece and its compensation by Pn time-terms for the accurate location of hypocenters: The example of the Gulf of Corinth 1995 Aigion earthquake

    M. Sachpazi;A. Galvé;M. Laigle;A. Hirn

  • The 2001 Mw = 6.4 Skyros earthquake, conjugate strike-slip faulting and spatial variation in stress within the central Aegean Sea

    A. Ganas;G. Drakatos;S.B. Pavlides;G.N. Stavrakakis

  • The 2013 earthquake swarm in Helike, Greece: seismic activity at the root of old normal faults

    V. Kapetanidis;Anne Deschamps;P. Papadimitriou;E. Matrullo

  • ISOLA Code for Multiple-Point Source Modeling—Review

    Jiří Zahradník;Efthimios Sokos

  • Rupture process of the 2014 Cephalonia, Greece, earthquake doublet (Mw6) as inferred from regional and local seismic data

    E. Sokos;A. Kiratzi;F. Gallovič;J. Zahradník

  • Seismic Waveform Data from Greece and Cyprus: Integration, Archival, and Open Access

    Christos P. Evangelidis;Nikolaos Triantafyllis;Michalis Samios;Kostas Boukouras

  • North Korea's 2017 Test and its Nontectonic Aftershock

    J. Liu;J. Liu;L. Li;J. Zahradník;E. Sokos

  • A new automatic S-onset detection technique: Application in local earthquake data

    Athanasios Lois;Efthimios Sokos;Nikolaos Martakis;Paraskevas Paraskevopoulos

  • From earthquake centroid to spatial‐temporal rupture evolution: Mw 6.3 Movri Mountain earthquake, June 8, 2008, Greece

    F. Gallovič;J. Zahradník;D. Křížová;V. Plicka

  • The Mw 7.1 Van, Eastern Turkey, earthquake 2011: two-point source modelling by iterative deconvolution and non-negative least squares

    Jiri Zahradník;Efthimios Sokos

  • Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in Greece - Part 2: Acceleration response spectra and elastic input energy spectra

    G. A. Tselentis;L. Danciu;E. Sokos

  • Coulomb stress triggering of earthquakes along the Atalanti Fault, central Greece: Two April 1894 M6+ events and stress change patterns

    A. Ganas;E. Sokos;A. Agalos;G. Leontakianakos

Frequent Co-Authors

Hélène Lyon-Caen
Hélène Lyon-Caen École Normale Supérieure
Anastasia Kiratzi
Anastasia Kiratzi Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pascal Bernard
Pascal Bernard Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Pierre Briole
Pierre Briole École Normale Supérieure
Anne Deschamps
Anne Deschamps Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Spyros Pavlides
Spyros Pavlides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jordi Diaz
Jordi Diaz Spanish National Research Council
John Clinton
John Clinton ETH Zurich
Andrea Cannata
Andrea Cannata University of Catania

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