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Aftershock Monitoring of the Athens Earthquake of 7 September 1999

2000; Seismological Society of America; Volume: 71; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1785/gssrl.71.3.330

1938-2057

G.‐A. Tselentis, Jiřı́ Zahradnı́k,

Seismic Performance and Analysis

Research Article| May 01, 2000 Aftershock Monitoring of the Athens Earthquake of 7 September 1999 G-Akis Tselentis; G-Akis Tselentis Seismological Laboratory University of Patras Rio 261 1 O, Greece tselenti@upatras.gr (G.-A.T.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Jiri Zahradnik Jiri Zahradnik Faculty of Mathematics & Physics Charles University Praha 121 16, Czech Republic jz@karel.trojo.mff.cuni.cz (J.Z.) Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Seismological Research Letters (2000) 71 (3): 330–337. https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.71.3.330 Article history first online: 09 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation G-Akis Tselentis, Jiri Zahradnik; Aftershock Monitoring of the Athens Earthquake of 7 September 1999. Seismological Research Letters 2000;; 71 (3): 330–337. doi: https://doi.org/10.1785/gssrl.71.3.330 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietySeismological Research Letters Search Advanced Search On 7 September 1999 at 3:00 pm local time (11:56:50 GMT) an earthquake of Mw = 5.9 struck Athens, the capital of Greece. The intensity reached IX in the northwest out-skirts of the city (Figure 1), where 143 people were killed and more than 2,000 injured. More than 100,000 people were rendered homeless. Most of the damage occurred within 15 km of the epicenter. Structural damage decreased rapidly with the distance from the epicenter, where it was influenced by poor foundation conditions (building on top of artificial fill) and in certain cases by local topography. The maximum... You do not currently have access to this article.