Field observations of geological effects triggered by the January-February 2014 Cephalonia (Ionian Sea, Greece) earthquakes

Tectonophysics

Volumn 630, Issue C, 2014, Pages 150-157

  Valkaniotis, Sotirios ^a   Ganas, Athanassios ^b   Papathanassiou, George ^c   Papanikolaou, Marios ^b  

^a National Observatory of Athens ^*  (Greece)

^b NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cephalonia; Earthquake; Fault; Greece; Liquefaction; Strike slip

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; LIQUEFACTION; ROCK BURSTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CEPHALONIA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GREECE; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP; STRUCTURAL DAMAGES; SURFACE CRACKS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; LIQUEFACTION; SITE EFFECT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CEPHALONIA [IONIAN ISLANDS]; GREECE; IONIAN ISLANDS; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84920155814     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.05.012     Document Type: Article

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