The 8 june 2008 Mw6.5 Achaia-Elia, Greece earthquake: Source characteristics, ground motions, and ground failure

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 399-424

  Margaris, Basil ^a   Athanasopoulos, George ^b   Mylonakis, George ^b   Papaioannou, Christos ^a   Klimis, Nikolaos ^c   Theodulidis, Nikolaos ^a   Savvaidis, Alexandros ^a   Efthymiadou, Vicky ^b   Stewart, Jonathan P ^d,e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e 5731 Boelter Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); MOTION ESTIMATION;

AFTERSHOCK DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTANCE-ATTENUATION; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; MOMENT TENSOR SOLUTIONS; RECORDING STATIONS; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SOURCE CHARACTERISTICS;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAILURE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC SOURCE;

ACHAEA; ELIS; GREECE; WESTERN GREECE;

EID: 77958487357     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3353626     Document Type: Article

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