The sparta fault, southern Greece: From segmentation and tectonic geomorphology to seismic hazard mapping and time dependent probabilities

Tectonophysics

Volumn 597-598, Issue , 2013, Pages 85-105

  Papanikolaou, Ioannis D ^a,b   Roberts, Gerald P ^b   Deligiannakis, Georgios ^a,c   Sakellariou, Athina ^a   Vassilakis, Emmanuel ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Active faults; Conditional probabilities; Evrotas; Lakonia; Slip rates; Taygetos

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; PROBABILITY; RUNOFF; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

ACTIVE FAULT; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; EVROTAS; LAKONIA; SLIP RATES; TAYGETOS;

FAULTING;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; PROBABILITY; SEGMENTATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; UPLIFT;

EVROTAS RIVER; GREECE; ILLINOIS; LACONIA; PELOPONNISOS; SPARTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879155947     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.08.031     Document Type: Article

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