Seismicity, seismotectonics, and seismic hazard in the northern Rhine area

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 425, Issue , 2007, Pages 225-242

  Hinzen, Klaus G ^a   Reamer, Sharon K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lower Rhine Embayment; Northern Rhine area; Seismicity; Seismotectonic

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; LOWER RHINE EMBAYMENT; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; NORTHERN RHINE AREA; SEISMIC INSTRUMENTATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GRABEN; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ALPS; BELGIUM; GERMANY; LIMBURG [NETHERLANDS]; NETHERLANDS; ROERMOND; RUR VALLEY GRABEN;

EID: 75749099774     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2425(15)     Document Type: Article

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