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South of Crete, the seismicity rate was constant in space and time between 1950 and 1978, but in the Western Hellenic Trench the rate was the same as that south of Crete until 1962, whereupon it decreased by 80%. We now suggest that the anomaly constitutes a warning of large earthquakes within the coming decade.
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Wyss, M., Baer, M. Seismic quiescence in the Western Hellenic Arc may foreshadow large earthquakes. Nature 289, 785–787 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/289785a0
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