Effect of aftershocks on earthquake hazard estimation: An example from the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Natural Hazards

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-11

  Öncel, Ali Osman ^a,b   Alptekin, Ömer ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

TURKEY;

EID: 0032741110     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008139802609     Document Type: Article

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