Earthquake Risk Assessment in Greece

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 R_ri = R_i/min R_i. 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.