Multi-criteria vulnerability analysis to earthquake hazard of Bucharest, Romania

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1129-1156

  Armaş, Iuliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Capacity; Earthquakes; Indicators; Spatial multi criteria analysis; Urban area; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

BUCHAREST [ROMANIA]; ROMANIA;

EID: 84864402277     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-012-0209-2     Document Type: Article

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