Have recent earthquakes exposed flaws in or misunderstandings of probabilistic seismic hazard analysis?

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 759-764

  Hanks, Thomas C ^a   Beroza, Gregory C ^b   Toda, Shinji ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 84866343622     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220120043     Document Type: Article

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