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.) Fields of science natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeologyseismologysocial sciencessociologygovernancecrisis managementseismic risk managementsocial scienceslaw Programme(s) FP1-CLIMAT 3C - Multiannual R&D programmes (EEC) in the field of the environment - Climatology and natural hazards - , 1986-1990 Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS EU contribution No data Address 15784 ZOGRAFOU ATHINAI Greece See on map Total cost No data