Earthquake hazard parameters in Crete island and its surrounding area inferred from Bayes statistics: An integration of morphology of the seismically active structures and seismological data

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1517-1536

  Tsapanos, Theodoros M ^a   Christova, Cenka V ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bayesian approach; Crete Island; Earthquake hazard parameters; Fracture zones; Subducting and overriding plates; Synthetic catalogues

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0038804149     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-003-2358-4     Document Type: Article

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