National seismic hazard model for New Zealand: 2010 update

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1514-1542

  Stirling, Mark ^a   McVerry, Graeme ^a   Gerstenberger, Matthew ^a   Litchfield, Nicola ^a   Van Dissen, Russ ^a   Berryman, Kelvin ^a   Barnes, Philip ^b   Wallace, Laura ^b   Villamor, Pilar ^b   Langridge, Robert ^b   Lamarche, Geoffroy ^b   Nodder, Scott ^b   Reyners, Martin ^a   Bradley, Brendon ^c   Rhoades, David ^a   Smith, Warwick ^a   Nicol, Andy ^a   Pettinga, Jarg ^c   Clark, Kate ^a   Jacobs, Katrina ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

END-USER APPLICATIONS; NEW ZEALAND; REGIONAL SCALE; RETURN PERIODS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEISMIC HAZARD MAPS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMICITY DATA; SEISMICITY PARAMETERS; SIMILAR PATTERN; SOURCE MODELS;

HAZARDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULTING; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84863697144     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110170     Document Type: Article

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