Probabilistic assessment of earthquake insurance rates for Turkey

Natural Hazards

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 291-313

  Yucemen, M S ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Building damage; Damage probability matrix; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake insurance; Insurance premium; Risk premium; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INSURANCE INDUSTRY; PROBABILITY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; TURKEY; WORLD;

EID: 23844495206     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-004-6485-8     Document Type: Article

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