Engineering Geology Mapping for Seismic Microzoning Purpose in Lezha Town Area, Albania

SUMMARY This paper shortly presents the results of the engineering geological mapping for seismic microzoning of the Lezha town, Albania. The studied area extends in northwest of Albania, closed to Adriatic Sea. Mostly of the Lezha town is built on flat area on both site of Drini River that are consisted of soils with low geotechnical properties. The other part of town is built on hill’s slopes, which are characterize by unstable state. Also, the Lezha area was defined a high hazardous area in Albania related to seismicity. For that, was carried out the engineering geological mapping on scale 1: 10 000 for seismic microzoning purpose and urban area development. The engineering geological mapping were based on geofactors are lithology, morphology, hydrogeology, geodynamics phenomena and physical-mechanical properties of soils and rocks.