Mining macroseismic fields to estimate the probability distribution of the intensity at site

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2876-2892

  Zonno, G ^a   Rotondi, R ^b   Brambilla, C ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS; DECAY PROCESS; GEOPHYSICAL CONDITIONS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MACROSEISMIC; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; TWO-STEP PROCEDURE; VALIDATION CRITERIA;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RANDOM VARIABLES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DATABASE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MINING; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 70349880873     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090042     Document Type: Article

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