Paleoseismological trenching across the Atalanti fault (Central Greece): Evidence for the ancestors of the 1894 earthquake during the Middle Ages and Roman Times

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 531-549

  Pantosti, D ^a   De Martini, P M ^a   Papanastassiou, D ^b   Lemeille, F ^c   Palyvos, N ^d   Stavrakakis, G ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; STRATIGRAPHY; TRENCHING;

CENTRAL GREECE; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; MIDDLE AGES; PALEOSEISMICITY; ROMAN ERA; SEISMIC HAZARD;

AEGEAN SEA; EVOIKOS GULF; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 2542596999     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020207     Document Type: Article

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