Integration and influence of paleoseismic and geologic data for the seismic hazard evaluation in the Catalan coastal ranges, Spain

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 9-12, 2002, Pages 911-916

  Ojeda, Aníbal ^a   Atakan, Kuvvet ^a   Masana, Eulàlia ^b   Santanach, Pere ^b   Jiménez, María José ^c   García Fernández, Mariano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catalan coastal ranges; Characteristic earthquake; Paleoseismology; Renewal model; Seismic hazard evaluation; Spain

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; GEOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SOILS;

EUROPEAN STRONG MOTION DATA; PALEOSEISMIC DATA; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; PALEOSEISMICITY; RETURN PERIOD; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC HAZARD;

CATALONIA; COASTAL RANGES; SPAIN;

EID: 0036817948     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0267-7261(02)00114-8     Document Type: Article

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