Seismic hazard in terms of spectral accelerations and uniform hazard spectra in Northern Algeria

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-135

  Peláez, José A ^a   Hamdache, M ^b   Casado, Carlos López ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Northern Algeria; Seismic hazard; Spatially smoothed seismicity; Spectral acceleration; Uniform hazard spectra

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE;

AFRICA; ALGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

EID: 33645738582     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-005-0011-0     Document Type: Article

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