Effect of time dependence on probabilistic seismic-hazard maps and deaggregation for the central Apennines, Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 2 A, 2009, Pages 585-610

  Akinci, A ^a   Galadini, F ^b   Pantosti, D ^a   Petersen, M ^c   Malagnini, L ^a   Perkins, D ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Sezione Milano Pavia   (Italy)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; APERIODICITY; DEAGGREGATION; FAULT MODEL; GEOLOGICAL INFORMATION; GROUND MOTIONS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HAZARD MAP; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; PASSAGE TIME; SEISMIC SOURCE; TIME DEPENDENCE; TIME-DEPENDENT MODELS;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING; PARAMETERIZATION; PERIODICITY; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650097339     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080053     Document Type: Article

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