Objective To establish, near Thessaloniki, a European test site forEngineering Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Seismology.To produce at this test site for a long period of time a high-quality instrumental in-situ data, so that they can ground validtests and checks of methods currently used in Engineeringseismology and Earthquake Engineering and calibrate new methodsto be developed.There is an urgent need to establish in Europe a few test-sites for engineering seismology earthquake engineering and seismology. The basic aim is to collect instrumental in-situ data, which are extremely well controlled (regardug their seismological, geological, geotechnical and structural backgrounds) so that they can ground valid tests and checks of methods already currently used in engineering seismology (prediction of ground motion, site effects, including geological and topographic irregularities) and earthquake engineering (concerning building behaviour, soil structure interaction, lifeline problems etc.), and calibrate new methods to be developed. Such test-sites have to be instrumented as densely as possible for many years and to be familiar as precisely as possible from a geological and geotechnical point of view, based on a dense and high quality geological, geophysical and geotechnical survey. They need to be located in a seismically active area in the immediate proximity of a seismological and geotechnical centre so that maintenance can be achieved. The Volvi-Thessaloniki area fits very well to these requirements and the present proposal intends to provide the basic studies and instrumentation for the establishment in this area of the first European Test SITE, where the prior aim will be the generation for a long period of high quality database from weak and strong motion measurements, that will be extremely useful for the improving of methods, estimating the site effects and the seismic behaviour of buildings. The basic outline of the activities to be carried out is the following: 1. Improvement of the local permanent seismological network, in order to improve primarily the hypocenter location and the estimation of focal mechanisms. 2. Processing of the seismological data from the permanent network. 3. Temporary seismic and geodetic (GPS) survey of the Volvi area, whose aim is the very precise determination of earthquakes occuring in the vicinity, the investigation of the non-linear behaviour of surficial sediments, the estimation of the wave field and the measurement of site effects for many events. ********************SEE END OF TEXT ON THE ORIGINAL COPY******************* Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabasesnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologyengineering and technologycivil engineeringstructural engineeringearthquake engineering Programme(s) FP3-ENV 1C - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of the environment, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 040101 - Seismic hazard Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI EU contribution No data Address University Campus 54006 THESSALONIKI Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI Greece EU contribution No data Address 54006 THESSALONKI See on map Total cost No data Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece EU contribution No data Address 54006 Thessaloniki See on map Total cost No data Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) France EU contribution No data Address 38402 Saint-Martin-d'Hères See on map Total cost No data INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Greece EU contribution No data Address 46,Georgikis Scholis Street 46 55102 Thessaloniki See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE Belgium EU contribution No data Address Boulevard du Rectorat - Sart Tilman B19 4000 LIEGE See on map Total cost No data