Comprehensive approach to earthquake disaster mitigation.

Includes bibliographical references

"Earthquake source processes; Kinematic adjustment of geodetic deformation networks with piece-wise linear deformation history model; The Helendale fault zone; Beyond plate tectonics: from a phenomenological to a causative view on global tectonics and earthquake activity; Discontinuity of the Helendale fault zone: geophysical evidence; Time and space distributions of the intermediate focal depth earthquakes in the south-west of Turkey; Earthquake hazard assessment; Some aspects of seismic hazard assessment in national and local levels in Albania; Qualitative study of site effects on seismograms: a case study in the area of eastern-central Greece; Cross-hole measurements of microzoning, Kalamata, Greece; Determining the properties of soils with different types of structural bonds affected by earthquake waves; Risk analysis and evaluation; Perspective on earthquakes in Turkey; Impulse table tests of single story buildings; An engineering field reconnaissance report on the Erzincan earthquake of 13 March 1992; Measures of protection; Land-use planning as instrument of earthquake hazard mitigation; Seismic rehabilitation of a capacitor bank structure through base isolation; Safe design of bolted connections in structural steelwork; Comprehensive di