Ground-motion variability and implementation of a probabilistic-deterministic hazard method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2992-3002

  Beauval, Céline ^a   Honoré, Laetitia ^a   Courboulex, Françoise ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION MODELS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION MODELS; GROUND-MOTION VARIABILITY; GUADELOUPE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INPUT PARAMETER; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; PROPAGATION PATHS; RUPTURE ZONE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SITE EFFECTS; SPECTRAL FREQUENCY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRESS DROP; VARYING STRESS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SIMULATION; SITE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GUADELOUPE; LEEWARD ISLANDS [LESSER ANTILLES]; LESSER ANTILLES;

EID: 70349855079     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080183     Document Type: Article

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