Empirical evaluation of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in eastern ground motions

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 130-138

  Atkinson, Gail ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY VARIABILITY; AVERAGE VALUES; CALIFORNIA; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; EMPIRICAL DATA; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; GROUND MOTIONS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PREDICTION EQUATIONS; RESPONSE SPECTRA; SITE-SPECIFIC; STANDARD DEVIATION;

STATISTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; HARD ROCK; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84872283547     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220120096     Document Type: Article

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