VASILIS KAPETANIDIS

Vasilis Kapetanidis

Position: Faculty Member
Rank: Assist. Professor
Section of: Geophysics and Geothermy
Scientific Topic: Seismology

Tel: +30 2107274932
e-mail: vkapetan@geol.uoa.gr
Personal Webpage: http://dggsl.geol.uoa.gr/cv/gr_kapetanidis.html

Research Interests

Seismotectonics, hypocentral relocation, repeating earthquakes, stress field, earthquake early warning, applications of machine learning in seismology, seismic tomography.

Indicative Teaching Topics

Undegraguate Program

• Seismology(Υ3203)
• Volcanic Seismology (Ε8216)
• Seismology of Greece - Plate Tectonics (Ε5201)
• Exploration of the Earth's Interior (Ε4203)
• Physics (Laboratory) (Υ1202)

Postgraduate Program "Earth and Environmental Sciences", Specialization: Geophysics and Seismology

• Advanced Seismology

Indicative Publications

Kapetanidis, V., Spingos, I., Ganas, A., Papageorgiou, A., Kaviris, G., 2024. Relocation of the 2018–2022 seismic sequences at the Central Gulf of Corinth: New evidence for north-dipping, low angle faulting. Tectonophysics 886, 230433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2024.230433

Kapetanidis, V., Michas, G., Spingos, I., Kaviris, G., Vallianatos, F., 2023. Cluster Analysis of Seismicity in the Eastern Gulf of Corinth Based on a Waveform Template Matching Catalog. Sensors 23, 2923. doi:10.3390/s23062923

Kapetanidis, V., Michas, G., Kaviris, G., Vallianatos, F., 2021. Spatiotemporal Properties of Seismicity and Variations of Shear-Wave Splitting Parameters in the Western Gulf of Corinth (Greece). Appl. Sci. 11, 6573. doi:10.3390/app11146573

Kapetanidis, V., Karakonstantis, A., Papadimitriou, P., Pavlou, K., Spingos, I., Kaviris, G., Voulgaris, N., 2020. The 19 July 2019 earthquake in Athens, Greece: A delayed major aftershock of the 1999 Mw = 6.0 event, or the activation of a different structure? J. Geodyn., 139, 101766. doi:10.1016/j.jog.2020.101766

Kapetanidis, V. & Kassaras, I., 2019. Contemporary crustal stress of the Greek region deduced from earthquake focal mechanisms, J. Geodyn., 123, 55-82. doi:10.1016/j.jog.2018.11.004.

Kapetanidis, V., Deschamps, A., Papadimitriou, P., Matrullo, E., Karakonstantis, A., Bozionelos, G., Kaviris, G., Serpetsidaki, A., Lyon-Caen, H., Voulgaris, N., Bernard, P., Sokos, E. & Makropoulos, K., 2015. The 2013 earthquake swarm in Helike, Greece: seismic activity at the root of old normal faults, Geophys. J. Int., 202, 2044-2073.

Kapetanidis, V. & Papadimitriou, P., 2011. Estimation of arrival-times in intense seismic sequences using a Master-Events methodology based on waveform similarity, Geophys. J. Int., 187, 889-917.

Sachpazi, M., Kapetanidis, V., Laigle, M., Papanikolaou, D., Galve, A., Charalampakis, M., Kissling, E., 2025. Bimodal Slip Segmentation of the SW Hellenic Megathrust Revealed by the Mw 6.8 Methoni Earthquake Sequence and Tomography. J. Geophys. Res. Solid Earth 130. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB030788

Serpetsidaki, A., Kapetanidis, V., Elias, P., Rigo, A., Spingos, I., De Barros, L., Lengliné, O., Bufféral, S., Karakonstantis, A., Bernard, P., Briole, P., Zahradník, J., Kaviris, G., Plicka, V., Sokos, E., Voulgaris, N., 2023. The 2020–2021 seismic sequence in the Western Gulf of Corinth: Insights on the triggering mechanisms through high resolution seismological and geodetic data analysis. Tectonophysics 863, 230011. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2023.230011

Papadimitriou, P., Kapetanidis, V., Karakonstantis, A., Kaviris, G., Voulgaris, N., Makropoulos, K., 2015. The Santorini Volcanic Complex: A detailed multi-parameter seismological approach with emphasis on the 2011–2012 unrest period. J. Geodyn. 85, 32–57. doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2014.12.004