Depth variation of seismic source scaling relations: Implications for earthquake hazard in southeastern Australia

Tectonophysics

Volumn 390, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 5-24

  Allen, Trevor I ^a,c   Gibson, Gary ^a,b   Brown, Amy ^b,d   Cull, James P ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Seismology Research Centre Australia   (Australia)

^c GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d FM Global Engineering and Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depth variation; Earthquake hazard; Seismic source scaling

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SCALE EFFECT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 6444238611     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.03.018     Document Type: Article

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