Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
01 May 1981, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abstract
The geotechnical aspects of three earthquakes that struck the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 25, June 20 and July 4, 1978 are presented. General background information on the observed damage, seismic history and geology of the area is followed by detailed description of soil profiles, structural characteristics and accelerograms of ground motions recorded at three sites. Acceleration spectra are then examined and compared in order to assess the degree to which local and regional geology and soil-structure interaction affected the recorded motion. Finally, the possibility of liquefaction having taken place in a 6 m-thick saturated loose layer of silty sand, under the monumental 'White Tower', is investigated. Conclusions are drawn in the light of the current state-of-art of assessing liquefaction potential of soils.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 1981 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Gazetas, George and Botsis, John, "Local Soil Effects and Liquefaction in the 1978 Thessaloniki Earthquakes" (1981). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 15.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/01icrageesd/session08/15
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Local Soil Effects and Liquefaction in the 1978 Thessaloniki Earthquakes
St. Louis, Missouri
The geotechnical aspects of three earthquakes that struck the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, on May 25, June 20 and July 4, 1978 are presented. General background information on the observed damage, seismic history and geology of the area is followed by detailed description of soil profiles, structural characteristics and accelerograms of ground motions recorded at three sites. Acceleration spectra are then examined and compared in order to assess the degree to which local and regional geology and soil-structure interaction affected the recorded motion. Finally, the possibility of liquefaction having taken place in a 6 m-thick saturated loose layer of silty sand, under the monumental 'White Tower', is investigated. Conclusions are drawn in the light of the current state-of-art of assessing liquefaction potential of soils.
