ABSTRACT
Vasilikos Power Station is to be situated on the South Coast of Cyprus. A total development of 720MW represents a significant proportion of the generating capacity of the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) and is in this context strategically important to the Island. Cyprus is situated in one of the more seismically active areas of the eastern Mediterranean, and the site itself is in an area of known seismic activity. Cyprus has a modern code of practice for the design of concrete structures in seismic areas which defines design accelerations and input ground response spectra. In view of the importance of the Vasilikos development, the Electricity Authority of Cyprus commissioned special investigations of the area, which included a microseismic survey and a seismic hazard analysis, to confirm the provisions of the design code. The paper describes this work and explains how the data was used to define the seismic design criteria for both civil engineering works and plant design.
