Sensitivity of PSHA results to ground motion prediction relations and logic-tree weights

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 317-329

  Sabetta, Fabio ^a   Lucantoni, Antonio ^a   Bungum, Hilmar ^b   Bommer, Julian J ^c  

^a DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^b NORSAR   (Norway)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aleatory variability; Epistemic uncertainty; Ground motion prediction models; Logic tree weights; Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; Seismic wave attenuation

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; LOGIC-TREE FORMALISM; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS (PSHA);

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING;

EID: 18744407296     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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