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The published tsunami catalogues for the Eastern Mediterranean
illustrate the potentially high tsunami hazard for the Gulf of
Corinth. A total of 16 tsunami events are reported to have
occurred since 1402. (Papadopoulos, 2003) Although the majority
of the tsunamis that have taken place are related to shallow
earthquakes, it is not clear whether these waves were caused by
the coseismic fault displacement on the seafloor or, seismically
triggered submarine and coastal landslides. The existing data on
the offshore fault length and submarine/coastal landslides (Fig
6.1) suggests that the coseismic seafloor displacement and
coastal/submarine landslides are the active tsunamogenic sources
in the Gulf. Fault generated tsunami The presence of a 15km long
submarine fault, i