Assessment of time-dependent seismic hazards on segments of active fault, and its problems

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 1937-1950

  Wen, Xueze ^a  

^a Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province   (China)

Author keywords

Active fault; Long term forecast; Probabilistic model; Rupture segmentation; Time dependent hazard

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000697022     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03186981     Document Type: Article

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