Seismicity anomalies prior to the 13 december 2008, Ms=5.7 earthquake in Central Greece

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 501-506

  Chouliaras, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CENTRAL GREECE; GREECE;

EID: 76149086518     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-9-501-2009     Document Type: Article

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