Site effects in the city of Thessaloniki (Greece) estimated from acceleration data and ID local soil profiles

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 521-537

  Triantafyllidis, Petros ^a   Hatzidimitriou, Panagiotis M ^a   Theodulidis, Nikos ^b   Suhadolc, Peter ^c   Papazachos, Costas ^b   Raptakis, Dimitris ^a   Lontzetidis, Kostas ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SITE EFFECT; SOIL DYNAMICS;

GREECE;

EID: 0032766107     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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