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Greece is located over one of the most active seismic belts on the earth; seismologists have estimated that 50% of the energy released annually by earthquake activity on the European continent is located in Greece. The first code for seismic-resistant design for Greece was published in 1959 (Royal Decrees 1959). Since the publication of that first code, the Greek governments have continued promoting methods to mitigate seismic risk, particularly after the 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake, which caused widespread damage to the city of Thessaloniki, with one million inhabitants, and the 1981 Alkionides earthquake, which also caused serious damage to the metropolitan area of Athens, with four million inhabitants. A new version of the seismic code was published after the latter quake [Seismic Code for Building Structures (1984), a decree of the Minister of the Environment]. The relevant provisions of this Code, which is still currently valid, are included in Sections 17.2 through 17.8.
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Manos, G.C. (1994). Greece. In: Paz, M. (eds) International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2069-6_17
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