Quantifying sensitivities of PSHA for France to earthquake catalog uncertainties, truncation of ground-motion variability, and magnitude limits

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1579-1594

  Beauval, Celine ^a,b   Scotti, Oona ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC WAVES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

CORNELL-MCGUIRE METHOD; GROUND ACCELERATION; PARAMETER IMPACTS; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT (PSHA);

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 12144272444     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/012003246     Document Type: Article

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