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SEISMIC RISK EVALUATION IN CENTRAL GREECE

Objective



THE RESEARCH WILL BE PERFORMED IN THE FOLLOWING FIVE AREAS :

1. SEISMOTECTONICS AND DATA COLLECTION (REGIONAL TECTONIC STRUCTURE AND PROCESS; FAULT RECOGNITION; LOCAL HISTORICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL RECORDS; DEPLOYING SEISMIC MONITORING NETWORK; DEPLOYING STRONG MOTION ACCELEROGRAPH NETWORK).

2. MICROZONATION STUDIES (GEOGRAPHYCAL INVESTIGATIONS; MICROTREMORS MEASUREMENTS; MICROEARTHQUAKE INVESTIGATIONS; GEOTECHNICAL INVESTIGATIONS).

3. HAZARD ASSESSMENT SEISMIC SOURCE DELINEATION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE MODELS; SELECTION OF ATTENUATION LAWS AND GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; SELECTION OF SEISMIC HAZARD MODELS; COMPILATION OF SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS.

4. VULNERABILITY AND RISK ANALYSIS STUDIES SUCH STUDIES WILL BE CARRIED OUT IN THE HIGHLY POPULATED CITY OF VOLOS.

5. EARTHQUAKE PREDICTIONS : THE SEISMOTECTONIC DATA WHICH WILL BE COLLECTED DURING THE FIRST TWO YEARS WILL ALSO BE USED FOR EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION STUDIES (IDENTIFICATION OF SEISMIC IRREGULARITIES, SEISMIC PATTERNS, SEISMIC GRAPHS ETC.)

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UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
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Address
15784 ZOGRAFOU
ATHINAI
Greece

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