Accounting for site effect in probabilistic assessment of seismic hazard for Romania and Bucharest: A case of deep seismicity in Vrancea zone

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 929-947

  Sokolov, Vladimir ^a   Bonjer, Klaus Peter ^a   Wenzel, Friedemann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design ground motion; Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; Site conditions

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; PROBABILITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

FOCAL VOLUME; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; HIGH RATE OF EARTHQUAKE OCCURANCE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SITE EFFECTS;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

DATABASE; GROUND MOTION; RETURN PERIOD; SEISMIC HAZARD; SITE EFFECT;

BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 8144226988     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2004.06.021     Document Type: Article

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