Estimating earthquake hazard parameters from instrumental data for different regions in and around Turkey

Engineering Geology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 200-210

  Bayrak, Yusuf ^a   Öztürk, Serkan ^a   Çinar, Hakan ^a   Kalafat, Doǧan ^b   Tsapanos, Theodoros M ^c   Koravos, G Ch ^c   Leventakis, G A ^c  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

b value; Earthquake hazard; Index K; Maximum magnitude M max; Mean activity rate

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; INDEX K; INSTRUMENTAL DATUM; ITERATIVE SCHEMES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHODS; REGIONAL VARIATIONS; RELATIVE HAZARDS; RETURN PERIODS; SEISMIC EVENTS; SEISMIC REGIONS; SEISMICITY PARAMETERS; SEISMOTECTONIC; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; THREE PARAMETERS; TIME INTERVALS;

ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; HAZARDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PINCH EFFECT; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; RETURN PERIOD; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 64049112959     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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