A quantitative appraisal of earthquake hazard parameters computed from Gumbel I method for different regions in and around Turkey

Natural Hazards

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 471-495

  Öztürk, Serkan ^a   Bayrak, Yusuf ^a   Çinar, Hakan ^a   Koravos, George Ch ^b   Tsapanos, Theodoros M ^b  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Earthquake hazard; Gumbel distribution; Mean return period; Themost probable maximum magnitude

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 54949094724     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-008-9234-6     Document Type: Article

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