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agreement with the ~E-W extension previously identified within the Albanian orogen.
Our results show that the 2009 mainshock ruptured a roughly 9 km normal fault at a
depth of 6km, which strikes ~N194 ° E and dips with an angle of ~45 ° to the west. The
slip of the mainshock was confined in a single patch of ~9 km × 6 km, the average slip
was 5 cm and the peak slip was 18 cm.
Kiratzi (2010). ILP Conference-Albania
Figure 1: Fault plane
solutions for earthquakes
with Mw>5.0 in Albania
and neighbouring
countries together with
the 2009 Dibra events
studied here. Note the
nearly N-S trending faults
(beach-balls depicted with
light green) along the
Albania orogen that take
up deformation by nearly
E-W extension.
The slip model was incorporated in a forward modelling scheme to simulate the ground
motion distribution in the near field. The shakeMap (Fig. 2) obtained from the
distribution of Peak Ground Velocity at phantom stations depicts the mezoseismal area
within the Dibra and Bulqiza districts in Albania, in accordance with macroseismic
observations. The region of occurrence of the 2009 sequence together with the
seismogenic region of the 1967 Dibra event, form a roughly NNE-SSW trending
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