A new earthquake catalogue for Bulgaria and the conterminous Balkan high hazard region

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-359

  Bayliss, T J ^a   Burton, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

ASIA; BALKAN; BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TURKMENISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 34248343000     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-7-345-2007     Document Type: Article

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