Model uncertainties of the 2002 update of California seismic hazard maps

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2040-2057

  Cao, Tianqing ^a   Petersen, Mark D ^b   Frankel, Arthur D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

MODEL UNCERTAINTY; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY; SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31544477441     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050017     Document Type: Article

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