An earthquake catalog for seismic hazard assessment in Ecuador

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 A, 2013, Pages 773-786

  Beauval, Céline ^a   Yepes, Hugo ^b   Palacios, Pablo ^b   Segovia, Monica ^b   Alvarado, Alexandra ^b   Font, Yvonne ^c   Aguilar, Jorge ^b,d   Troncoso, Liliana ^b   Vaca, Sandro ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^d PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGS; HISTORICAL CATALOG; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; PRIORITY SCHEMES; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SPATIAL WINDOWS; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECUADOR;

EID: 84875425280     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120270     Document Type: Article

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