Deducing paleoearthquake timing and recurrence from paleoseismic data, Part I: Evaluation of new Bayesian Markov-Chain Monte Carlo simulation methods applied to excavations with continuous peat growth

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 383-406

  Hilley, G E ^a   Young, J J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCAVATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PEAT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

PALEOEARTHQUAKE; PALEOSEISMIC EXCAVATION; PEAT GROWTH;

EARTHQUAKES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENCHMARKING; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EXCAVATION; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PALEOSEISMICITY; PEAT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMIC DATA;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WRIGHTWOOD;

EID: 40549106172     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020077     Document Type: Article

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