Seismic hazard assessment for Guatemala city

Natural Hazards

Volumn 14, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 189-205

  Villagran, M ^a,b   Lindholm, C ^c   Dahle, A ^c   Cowan, H ^c   Bungum, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSIVUMEH ^*

^c NORSAR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central America; Fault and area sources; Logic tree model; Peak ground acceleration; Probabilistic seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISASTER MITIGATION; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; FAULT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MITIGATION; NATURAL HAZARD; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RISK; STRONG MOTION;

GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA CITY;

EID: 0030668466     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00128266     Document Type: Article

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