Rock-falls and liquefaction related phenomena triggered by the June 8, 2008, Mw=6.4 earthquake in NW peloponnesus, Greece

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Pavlides, Spyros ^a   Papathanassiou, George ^a   Valkaniotis, Sotiris ^a   Chatzipetros, Alexis ^a   Sboras, Sotiris ^a,b   Caputo, Riccardo ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Greece; Liquefaction; Peloponnesus; Rock falls

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FOCAL MECHANISM; KINEMATICS; LIQUEFACTION; ROCKFALL; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

GREECE; PELOPONNESE;

EID: 84899910986     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-5807     Document Type: Article

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