Kremasta Dam

…at Kastraki; the other, at Kremasta, is the highest (490 feet [150 metres]) earth-fill dam in Europe. At the mouth of the river, where it is less than 2 feet deep, a number of small islands, the Ekhinádhes, have been enveloped by the silt. The name Aspropótamos (White River) is…

At both the Kremasta Dam in Greece (1965) and the Kariba Dam in Zimbabwe-Zambia (1961), the generating mechanism was dip-slip on normal faults. By contrast, thrust mechanisms have been determined for sources of earthquakes at the lake behind Nurek Dam in Tajikistan. More than 1,800 earthquakes occurred during