Consideration and propagation of epistemic uncertainties in New Zealand probabilistic seismic-hazard analysis

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1554-1568

  Bradley, Brendon A ^a   Stirling, Mark W ^b   McVerry, Graeme H ^b   Gerstenberger, Matt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT RUPTURES; FAULT-BASED; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; GROUND MOTION PREDICTION; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION MODELS; MAGNITUDE-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEW ZEALAND; REPRESENTATIVE VALUES; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP PARAMETER; SOIL CLASS; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION;

FAULTING; FORECASTING; HAZARDS; IGNITION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84864992738     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110257     Document Type: Article

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