Engineering geological mapping for the seismic microzoning of Saranda town, Albania

摘要

This paper is a summary of engineering geology mapping on scale 1:10 000 carried out in the Saranda town for seismic microzoning purpose. For that are used several criteria, which are the lithological, morphological, hydrogeological, geodynamic and physical-mechanical criteria. So, on base of above criteria, the urban area is divided in several engineering geological zone and sites. In the end is concluded that urban area is suitable for the proposed development from an engineering geology mapping standpoint provided that the recommendations contained in this study are successfully implemented into the urban development projects.