Seismic hazard analysis using the adaptive kernel density estimation technique for Chennai city

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 169, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 55-69

  Ramanna, C K ^a   Dodagoudar, G R ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive kernel density estimation; Diffused seismicity; Distributed seismicity; Kernel density estimation; Pga; Probabilistic seismic hazard; Uniform hazard spectra

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE KERNELS; DIFFUSED SEISMICITY; DISTRIBUTED SEISMICITY; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; PGA; SEISMIC HAZARDS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HAZARDS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PEAK ACCELERATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY;

CHENNAI; INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 80054794213     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-011-0264-8     Document Type: Article

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