Peer-reviewed International Publications (Scopus/ISI)

36) Mouslopoulou, V., Sudhaus, H., Konstantinou, K. I., Begg, J., Saltogianni, V., Männel, B., Antinisari R., Oncken, O., 2022. A deeper look into the 2021 Tyrnavos Earthquake Sequence (TES) reveals coseismic breaching of an unrecognized large-scale fault relay zone in continental Greece. Tectonics, 41, e2022TC007453. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022TC007453  

35) Nicol, A., Begg, J., Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Howell, A., 2022. Uplift and fault slip during the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake and Late Quaternary, Kaikōura Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics: Kaikōura Earthquake Special Issue, https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2021.2021955.

34) Veliz, V., *Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Oncken, O., 2022. Normal faulting along the Kythira-Antikythira Strait, southwest Hellenic forearc, Greece. Front. Earth Sci. 9:730806.doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.730806 

33) Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Dielforder, A., Bocchini, G-M., Bedford, J., Oncken, O., 2021. Slow slip triggers the 2018 M_w 6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake within the weakly locked Hellenic Subduction System, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22, e2021GC010090, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GC010090     

32) Olivotos, S., Niedermann, S., Flügel, T., Mouslopoulou, V., Merchel, S., Cotterill,F., Bookhagen, B., Gärtner,A., Rugel, G., Scharf, A., Nadeau, M-J., Braucher, R., Seiler, M,  2021. Quaternary landscape evolution in a tectonically active rift basin (paleo-lake Mweru, south-central Africa). Geomorphology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107669 

31) Petersen, G. M., Niemz, P., Cesca, S., Mouslopoulou, V., Bocchini, G-M., 2020. Clusty, the waveform-based network similarity clustering toolbox: Concept and application to image complex faulting offshore Zakynthos (Greece), Geophysical Journal International, ggaa568, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggaa568

30) Mouslopoulou, V., Bocchini, G.-M., Cesca, S., Saltogianni, V., Bedford, J., Petersen, G., Gianniou, M., Oncken, O., 2020. Earthquake-swarms, slow-slip and fault-interactions at the western-end of the Hellenic Subduction System precede the M6.9 Zakynthos Earthquake, Greece. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009243, doi:10.1029/2020GC009243

29) Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Oncken, O., 2020. Displacement accumulation and sampling of paleoearthquakes on active normal faults of Crete in the eastern Mediterranean. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21, e2020GC009265, doi: 10.1029/2020GC009265

28) Saltogianni, V., Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Nicol, A., Gianniou, M., Mertikas, S., 2020. Elastic fault interactions and earthquake-rupture along the southern Hellenic subduction plate-interface zone in Greece. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2019GL086604,  doi.org/10.1029/2019GL086604.

27) Konstantinou, K.I., Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., 2020. Seismicity and Active Faulting around the Metropolitan Area of Athens, Greece. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 110, 1924-1941, doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/0120200039

26) Reid, C., Begg, J., *Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Nicol, A., Kufner, K-S., 2020. Using a calibrated upper living position of marine biota to calculate coseismic uplift: a case study of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth Surface Dynamics, 8, 351–366, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-8-351-2020.

25) Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, J., Babeyko, A., Cesca, S., Moreno, M., 2019. Breaking a subduction-termination from top-to-bottom: the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, 221-230, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.020.

24) Veliz, V., *Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Fassoulas, B., Begg, J., Onkcen, O., 2018. Millenial to million year normal-fault interactions on the forearc of a subduction margin, Crete, Greece. Journal of Structural Geology 113, 225-241 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.019.

23) Cesca, S., Zhang, Y., Mouslopoulou, V., Wang, R., Saul, J., Savage, M., Heimann, S., Kufner, S.-K., Oncken, O., Dahm, T., 2017. Complex rupture process of the Mw 7.8, 2016, Kaikoura earthquake, New Zealand, and its aftershock sequence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 478, 110-120, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.024.

22) Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Fülling, A., Moraetis, D., Partsinevelos, P., and Oncken, O., 2017. Distinct phases of eustatic and tectonic forcing for late Quaternary landscape evolution southwest Crete, Greece. Earth Surface Dynamics 5, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-511-2017, 2017.

21) Konstantinou, K., Mouslopoulou, V., Liang, W-T., Heidbach, O., Oncken, O., Suppe, J., 2017. Present-day crustal stress field in Greece inferred from regional-scale damped inversion of earthquake focal mechanisms. Journal of Geophysical Research 122, 506-523, doi:10.1002/2016JB013272.

20) Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Hainzl, S., Nicol, A., 2016. Uplift rate transients at subduction margins due to earthquake clustering. Tectonics 35, 2370–2384, https://doi.org/10.1002/2016TC004248.

19) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J.,Oncken, O., Moreno, M., 2015. Clusters of mega-earthquakes on upper plate faults control the Eastern Mediterranean hazard. Geophysical Research Letters 42, 10,282–10,289, https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066371.

[for Pub. 19 see also: Mediterranean quake risk rises. Nature 528, page 166].

18) Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Prior, C., 2015. Formation of Late Quaternary paleoshorelines in Crete, Eastern Mediterranean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 431, 294-307, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.09.007.

17) Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Gianniou, M, Stiros, S., 2014. Geodetic evidence for tectonic activity on the Strymon Fault System, northeast Greece. Tectonophysics 633, 246-255,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.012

16) Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D., Benedetti, L., Guillou, V., Bellier, O., Hristopulos, D., 2014. Normal faulting in the forearc of the Hellenic subduction margin: Paleoearthquake history and kinematics of the Spili Fault, Crete, Greece. Journal of Structural Geology 66, 298-308, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2014.05.017.

15) Giba, M., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Seebeck, H., 2013. Spatio-temporal relationships between normal faulting and arc volcanism on million year timescales along a subduction margin. Journal of the Geological Society London 170, 951-962, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2012-121.

14) Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D.T., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Bannister, S., 2013. The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case study from New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research 118, 1556-1568, https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrb.50062.

13) Hristopulos, D., Mouslopoulou, V., 2013. A stochastic stick-slip model linking crustal shear strength and earthquake interevent times. Physica A 392, 485-496, doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.09.011.

12) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D.B., Hristopulos, D.T., 2012. Fault-slip accumulation in an active rift over thousands to millions of years and the importance of paleoearthquake sampling. Journal of Structural Geology 36, 71-80, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2011.11.010

11) Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D., Fassoulas, C., 2011. Identifying past earthquakes on carbonate faults: advances and limitations of the Rare Earth Element method based on analysis of the Spili Fault, Crete, Greece. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 309, 45-55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.06.015.

10) Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D.T., 2011. Patterns of tectonic fault interactions captured through variogram analyses of microearthquakes. Journal of Geophysical Research 116, B07305, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2010JB007804

9) Townsend, D., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., Begg, J.G., Beetham, R.D., Clark, D., Giba, M., Heron, D., Lukovic, B., McPherson, A., Seebeck, H., Walsh, J.J., 2010. Paleoearthquake histories across a normal fault system in the southwestern Taranaki Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 53, 375-394, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00288306.2010.526547.

8) Begg, J.G., Mouslopoulou, V., 2010. Analysis of late Holocene faulting within an active rift using lidar, Taupo Rift, New Zealand. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 190, 152–167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2009.06.001.

7) Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Mouslopoulou, V., Villamor, P., 2009. Earthquake histories and Holocene acceleration of fault displacement rates. Geology 37, 911–914, https://doi.org/10.1130/G25765A.1.

6) Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2009. Fault displacement rates on a range of timescales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 278, 186-197, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.11.031.

5) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Begg, J., 2009. Paleoearthquake surface rupture in a transition zone from strike-slip to oblique-normal slip and its implication to seismic hazard, North Island Fault System, New Zealand. In: Reicherter, K., Michetti, A.M. & Silva Barroso, P.G. (eds) Palaeoseismology: Historical and Prehistorical Records of Earthquake Ground Effects for Seismic Hazard Assessment. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 316, 269-292, http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/316/1/269.short.

4) Begg, J.G., Van Dissen, R.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., 2008. Characteristics of the Pacific-Australian Tectonic Plate Interface in New Zealand. In: Graham, I. (eds), New Zealand Geoscience into the 21st Century. Geological Society of New Zealand, Miscell. Pub. 124, 388 pp, ISBN 978-1-877480-00-3.

3) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Beetham, D., Stagpoole, V., 2008. Quaternary temporal stability of a regional strike-slip and rift fault intersection. Journal of Structural Geology 30, 4, 451-463, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2007.12.005.

2) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Walsh, J.J, 2007. Terminations of large strike-slip faults: an alternative model from New Zealand. In: Cunningham, W. D. & Mann, P. (eds), Tectonics of Strike-Slip Restraining and Releasing Bends. Geological Society of London, Special Publication 290, 387–415, http://sp.lyellcollection.org/content/290/1/387.short.

1) Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Walsh, J.J., 2007. Displacement transfer between intersecting strike-slip and extensional fault systems. Journal of Structural Geology 29, 100-116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.08.002.

*Corresponding author

Selected International Conferences

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., 2020: Millennial to million year slip-rate variations on active faults (Invited Plenary Talk), In: ‘New directions in earthquake science’, Southern California Earthquake Centre Annual Meeting (2020 SCEC Annual Meeting), 12-17 September, California, 2020. Talk VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js7FFLnSYpI&feature=youtu.be

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Walsh, J., 2019: Transient fault-slip accumulation on continental fault systems and active subduction margins (solicited talk), Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 21, EGU2019-6527, 2019EGU General Assembly 2019.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, J., Babeyko, A., Cesca, S., Moreno, M., 2019. Breaking a subduction-termination from top-to-bottom: the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 12-16 December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.

Mouslopoulou, V., Saltogianni, V., Nicol, A., Oncken, O., Begg, B., Moreno, M., Cesca, S., 2018. The 2016 Mw 7.8 Kaikōura Earthquake: a rare snapshot of coseismic-slip transfer between the plate-interface and faults in the upper-crust. EGU General Assembly 2018, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 20, EGU2018-3703,  8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Moreno, M., Oncken, O., Begg, J., S-K Kufner. Large-scale fault interactions at the termination of a subduction margin: the case study of the M7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake in New Zealand. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 10-15 December 2017, New Orleans, USA.

Mouslopoulou, V., Oncken, O., Hainzl, S., Nicol, A., Moreno, M., Begg, J., 2016. Earthquake clustering on upper-plate faults and the subduction thrust controls uplift rate transients and long-term forearc topography along subduction margins. American Geophysical Union (AGU), 12-16 December 2016, San Francisco, USA.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Oncken, O., Moreno, M., Prior, C., 2015. High uplift-transients indicate clusters of mega-earthquakes in Eastern Mediterranean during the last 50 kyr.  European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 13-17 April 2015: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 17, EGU2015-2477, 2015.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Begg, J., Prior, C., Oncken, O., 2014. Earthquake variability produces long-term stability of uplift rates along the Hellenic subduction margin. In: Interdisciplinary meeting on climate change and seismic hazards during the Holocene in the Mediterranean, July 7-8, 2014 CEREGE, Technopôle de l’Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2014.

Mouslopoulou, V., Gianniou, M, Saltogianni, V., Stiros, S., 2014. Geodetic evidence for tectonic activity on the Strymon Fault System, northeast Greece. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2014: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 16, EGU2014-3079, 2014.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Bannister, S., 2013. The importance of microearthquakes in crustal extension of an active rift: a case-study from New Zealand (solicited talk). European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2013: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-5230, 2013.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D., Hristopulos, D., 2013. Fault-slip accumulation in an active rift over thousands to millions of years and the importance of paleoearthquake sampling. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 8-12 April 2013: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-5434, 2013.

Mouslopoulou, V., Moraetis, D, Lucilla B., Fassoulas, C., Hristopulos, D.T., 2012. Is the Spili Fault responsible for the double destruction of the Minoan Palace at Phaistos?, 1^st workshop of Arhaeopaleoseismology: Interdisciplinary perspectives on Minoan earthquakes, Leuven, 28-30 November, Belgium.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Begg, J.G., Townsend, D., Hristopulos, D., 2011. ‘Sampling biases in the paleoseismological data’ In: Earthquake Geology and Archaeology: Science, Society and Critical facilities. (Edited by Grützner, C., Perez-Lopez, R., Fernandez-Steeger, T., Papanikolaou, I., Reicherter, K., Silva, P.G. and Vött, A.), Proceedings of the 2nd INQUA-IGCP 567 International Workshop, Corinth, 290, 148-151, ISBN 978-960-466-093-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., 2011.Relations between paleoearthquakes and million year fault growth (solicited talk). IODP Marmara-Trans Workshop, Istanbul Technical University, 12-16 June, Istanbul, Turkey.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Walsh, J., Townsend, D., Begg, J., Heron, D., Beetham, D., Hristopulos, D., 2010. Relations between paleoearthquakes and million-year fault growth in an active rift (solicited talk), in ‘Submarine Paleoseismology: the offshore search for large Holocene earthquakes’, European Science Foundation, Obergurgl, 11-16 September, Austria.

Mouslopoulou, V., Hristopulos, D., 2010. Patterns of fault interactions triggered by micro earthquake activity. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 2-7 May 2010: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 12, EGU2010-3035, 2010.

Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2009. Fault displacement rates on a range of timescales. European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria, 19-24 April 2009: Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 11, EGU2009-5761-1, 2009.

Mouslopoulou, V., Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., 2008. Fault displacement rates over different timescales (Keynote): 33rd International Geological Congress (IGC), Oslo, Norway, August 6-14, 2008: abstracts (no.STT01106L).

Walsh, J.J., Nicol, A., Mouslopoulou, V., 2008. The role of interaction on the growth of faults on geological and earthquake time scales (Keynote): New Challenges In Earthquake Dynamics: Observing And Modelling A MultiScale System, European Sciences Foundation, Innsbruck, October 2008.

Nicol, A., Walsh, J.J., Childs, C., Mouslopoulou, V., & Schöpfer, M.P.J., 2008. Interactions and growth of faults on earthquake and geological timescales. Fault Zones Structure, Mechanics and Fluid Flow, Geological Society of London, September 2008.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., Begg, J., 2007.Paleoearthquake surface rupture in a transition zone from strike-slip to oblique-normal faulting. International Union of Geodesy & Geophysics (IUGG) XXIV General Assembly 2007, 1-12 July, Perugia, Italy, ISBN 978-88-95852-25-4.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T.A., 2006. Quaternary kinematics and temporal stability of a strike-slip and normal fault intersection, North Island, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 122A, ISBN 0-908678-05-3.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., Beetham, D., Berryman, K., Langridge R., Villamor, P., Beanland, S., 2005. Late Quaternary paleoearthquakes on the northern North Island Fault System, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 119A., ISBN 0-908678-01-0.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., 2004. Relations between fault kinematics and paleoearthquakes in a transition zone from strike-slip to normal faulting, North Island, New Zealand. Abstract no. 271-17 In: Italia 2004: 32nd International Geological Congress (IGC) Florence, Italy, August 20-28, 2004: abstracts.

Mouslopoulou, V., Nicol, A., Little, T., Berryman, K., Walsh, J., 2004. Fault interactions and slip transfer between the North Island Dextral Fault Belt and the Taupo Rift, New Zealand. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscell. Pub. 117A, ISBN 0-908678-98-3.

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