A poisson model for earthquake frequency uncertainties in seismic hazard analysis

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 19, 2008, Pages

  Greenhough, John ^a   Main, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CENTROID MOMENT TENSORS; EARTHQUAKE FREQUENCIES; FIXED TIMES; GAUSSIAN; GEOLOGICAL AND NUCLEAR SCIENCES; HARVARD; MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; NEW ZEALAND; POISSON MODELS; SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MOMENT TENSOR; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY; SEISMOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; CALIFORNIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57749190313     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL035353     Document Type: Article

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