Reassessment of probabilistic seismic hazard in the Marmara region

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2127-2146

  Kalkan, Erol ^a   Gülkan, Polat ^a   Yilmaz, Nazan ^a   Çelebi, Mehmet ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN SPECTRUM; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE MODELS; FAULT MODEL; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION; HAZARD CURVES; HAZARD MAP; ISTANBUL; MARMARA SEA; METROPOLITAN AREA; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; RETURN PERIODS; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMOTECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; SITE CONDITIONS; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION;

DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; EARTHQUAKES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC DESIGN; SOILS;

HAZARDS;

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LOW VELOCITY ZONE; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PEAK ACCELERATION; PROBABILITY; RETURN PERIOD; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SMOOTHING; SOFT SOIL;

BALIKESIR [TURKEY]; EURASIA; MARMARA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 69549086723     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080285     Document Type: Article

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