Empirical ground-motion prediction equations for northwestern Turkey using the aftershocks of the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Bindi, D ^a   Parolai, S ^b   Grosser, H ^b   Milkereit, C ^b   Durukal, E ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS;

AFTERSHOCKS; GROUND VELOCITY; GROUND-MOTION MODEL;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; GROUND MOTION; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; MAGNITUDE; PREDICTION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 34250730183     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029222     Document Type: Article

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