Thessaloniki - Gerakarou Fault Zone (TGFZ): The western extension of the 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake fault (Northern Greece) and seismic hazard assessment

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2109-2123

  Tranos, Markos D ^a   Papadimitriou, Eleftheria E ^a   Kilias, Adamantios A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Coulomb stress; Earthquake triggering; Fault segmentation; Northern Greece; Seismic activity; Thessaloniki

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

SEISMIC PROPERTIES;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT ZONE; SEISMICITY;

GREECE; THESSALONIKI;

EID: 0142072533     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(03)00071-3     Document Type: Article

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