Estimation of regional seismic hazard in the Korean Peninsula using historical earthquake data between A.D. 2 and 1995

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 269-284

  Chiu, Jer Ming ^a   Kim, So Gu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HOSPITALS; MODERNIZATION; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

HIGH RELATIVE SEISMIC ENERGY; KOREAN SEISMIC ZONES; SEISMIC HAZARD; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA;

EID: 1842864335     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120010256     Document Type: Article

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