Tsunami hazards associated with the Perachora fault at eastern Corinth Gulf, Greece

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1649-1661

  Tselentis, G Akis ^a   Gkika, Faidra ^a   Sokos, Efthimios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EARTHQUAKES; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE COMPLEXITY; LOCAL TSUNAMI WAVE FIELD; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; TZUNAMI HAZARDS ASSESSMENTS;

TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; TSUNAMI;

CORINTH [PELOPONNISOS]; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; PELOPONNISOS; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33750301069     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050119     Document Type: Article

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