Seismic risk assessment for the territory of Armenia and strategy of its mitigation

Natural Hazards

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 43-55

  Balassanian, S Yu ^a   Melkoumian, M G ^a   Arakelyan, A R ^a   Azarian, A R ^a  

^a National Survey for Seismic Protection of the Republic of Armenia   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Armenia; New technologies; Reduction and mitigation; Seismic risk

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD;

ARMENIA;

EID: 0033502293     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008195211063     Document Type: Article

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