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A quantitative approach of the earthquake risk, in a long-term and large-scale sense, has been made for 23 distinct regions of Greece. The risk, Ri, in each region, i, has been determined as a convolution of earthquake hazard, buildings oldness coefficient, average population density and regional Gross Domestic Product per capita. A relative risk scale was adopted by assinging each region with Rri = Ri/min Ri. The final product is a map of large-scale, relative earthquake risk distribution in Greece, which allows the elaboration of strategic plans for the risk mitigation.
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Papadopoulos, G.A., Arvanitides, A. (1996). Earthquake Risk Assessment in Greece. In: Schenk, V. (eds) Earthquake Hazard and Risk. Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0243-5_15
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