The october 23 (m w = 7.2) and november 9 (m w = 5.7), 2011 Van, Turkey earthquakes. A geoscientific and engineering report

Ingegneria Sismica

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 13-37

  Carydis, Panayotis ^a   Lekkas, Efthymis ^b   Papaioannou, Christos ^c   Tsokos, Andreas ^a   Delakouridis, John ^d  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

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

^d Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment   (Greece)

Author keywords

Earthquake reconnaissance; Illegal building construction; Strong motion records; Structural seismic damage; Turkish seismic building codes; Van earthquake; Vertical seismic component

Indexed keywords

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKE RECONNAISSANCE; SEISMIC DAMAGE; STRONG MOTION RECORDS; TURKISHS; VERTICAL SEISMIC COMPONENT;

BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; CATALYSIS; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; FAULTING; HOTELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84865173805     PISSN: 03931420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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