Damage data analysis and vulnerability estimation following the August 14, 2003 Lefkada Island, Greece, Earthquake

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1015-1046

  Karababa, Faye S ^a   Pomonis, Antonios ^a  

^a Risk Management Solutions ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Damage data; Lefkada Island; Parameterless seismic intensity scale; Vulnerability curves

Indexed keywords

BUILDING TYPOLOGIES; CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE; DAMAGE DATA; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES; LEFKADA ISLAND; MASONRY BUILDING; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; SEISMIC INTENSITY; TIMBER FRAMES; VULNERABILITY CURVES;

BUILDINGS; DATA REDUCTION; MASONRY MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MASONRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TYPOLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; LEFKADA;

EID: 79960031456     PISSN: 1570761X     EISSN: 15731456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10518-010-9231-5     Document Type: Article

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