The impact of the spatial uniform distribution of seismicity on probabilistic seismic-hazard estimation

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2465-2471

  Beauval, Céline ^a,b   Hainzl, Sebastian ^a   Scherbaum, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FRACTAL SEISMICITY DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC SOURCE ZONE; SPATIAL SEISMICITY DISTRIBUTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; COLOGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 33846045026     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060073     Document Type: Article

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