Seismic hazard assessment in terms of macroseismic intensity in Italy: A critical analysis from the comparison of different computational procedures

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1614-1631

  Capera, Augusto A Gómez ^a   D'Amico, Vera ^a   Meletti, Carlo ^a   Rovida, Andrea ^a   Albarello, Dario ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL PROCEDURES; COMPUTATIONAL SCHEMES; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EXCEEDANCE PROBABILITY; EXPOSURE-TIME; HAZARD MAP; INPUT DATAS; KEY ELEMENTS; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY;

HAZARDS;

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAP; PEAK ACCELERATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

ITALY;

EID: 77955318357     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090212     Document Type: Article

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