Errors in expected human losses due to incorrect seismic hazard estimates

Natural Hazards

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 927-935

  Wyss, Max ^a   Nekrasova, Anastasia ^b   Kossobokov, Vladimir ^b,c  

^a World Agency for Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction   (Switzerland)

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

^c INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Seismic hazard; Seismic risk

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ERROR ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PEAK ACCELERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 84861682897     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0125-5     Document Type: Article

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