Seismic hazard of Romania: Deterministic approach

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 157, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 221-247

  Radulian, M ^a   Vaccari, F ^b   Mandrescu N ^a   Panza, G F ^b   Moldoveanu, C L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EARTH PHYSICS   (Romania)

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

Author keywords

Deterministics modeling; Romania; Seismic hazard; Vrancea intermediate depth earthquakes

Indexed keywords

SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY;

ROMANIA;

EID: 0034122882     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-8415-0_13     Document Type: Article

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