Assessment of earthquake insurance rates for the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool

Georisk

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-74

  Deniz, A ^a   Yucemen, M Semih ^b  

^a Technological Engineering Services Co Ltd   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake insurance; Earthquake resistant design; Probabilistic modelling; Seismic hazard; Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool; Vulnerability analysis

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL MARKET; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MODELING; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMIC HAZARD; VULNERABILITY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 68149164940     PISSN: 17499518     EISSN: 17499526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17499510802553164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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