Deterministic seismic zoning of eastern Cuba

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 469-486

  Alvarez, Leonardo ^a,c   Vaccari, Franco ^b   Panza, Giuliano F ^b,c  

^a Ctro Nac de Invest Sismologicas   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cuba; Deterministic modelling; Seismic hazard; Synthetic seismograms

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; ZONATION;

CUBA;

EID: 0033392674     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000240050308     Document Type: Article

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