A deterministic seismic hazard analysis for shallow earthquakes in Greece

Tectonophysics

Volumn 442, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 66-82

  Moratto, L ^a   Orlecka Sikora, B ^b   Costa, G ^a   Suhadolc, P ^a   Papaioannou, Ch ^c   Papazachos, C B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

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

^d ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Deterministic model; Greece; Seismic hazard; Velocity models

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOCAL MECHANISM; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548280934     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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