Multiple large earthquakes in the past 1500 years on a fault in metropolitan Manila, the Philippines

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 73-85

  Nelson, Alan R ^a   Personius, Stephen F ^a   Rimando, Rolly E ^b   Punongbayan, Raymundo S ^b   Tuñgol, Norman ^b   Mirabueno, Hannah ^b   Rasdas, Ariel ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEBRIS FLOW; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

MANILA; PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0034054104     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0119990002     Document Type: Article

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