Regional variation of the ω-upper bound magnitude of GIII distribution in and around Turkey: Tectonic implications for earthquake hazards

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 165, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1367-1390

  Bayrak, Yusuf ^a   Ötürk, Serkan ^a   Çinar, Hakan ^a   Koravos, G Ch ^b   Tsapanos, T M ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

values; Earthquake hazard; Gumbel's distribution; Magnitude rupture relationship; Turkey

Indexed keywords

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; SEISMIC HAZARD; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 51049115124     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-008-0359-z     Document Type: Article

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