Relationship between the 13 May 1995 Kozani-Grevena (NW Greece) earthquake and the Polyphyto artificial lake

Engineering Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-74

  Drakatos, G ^a   Papanastassiou, D ^a   Papadopoulos, G ^a   Skafida, H ^b   Stavrakakis, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Public Power Corporation   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAMS; LAKES; SEISMOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

GREECE; INDUCED SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMICITY;

GREECE;

EID: 0032215124     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(98)00041-6     Document Type: Article

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