Neo-Deterministic Seismic Hazard and Pattern Recognition Techniques: Time-Dependent Scenarios for North-Eastern Italy

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 168, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 583-607

  Peresan, A ^a,b   Zuccolo, E ^a   Vaccari, F ^a,b   Gorshkov, A ^b,c   Panza, G F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION THEORY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

earthquake prediction; Ground motion scenarios; Italy; morphostructural zonation; pattern recognition; seismic hazard; site effects

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION SCENARIOS; ITALY; MORPHOSTRUCTURAL ZONATION; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SITE EFFECTS;

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC ZONE; SITE EFFECT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; NIMIS; TRIESTE [FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA]; TRIESTE [TRIESTE (PRV)]; UDINE;

EID: 79952707907     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0166-1     Document Type: Article

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