A new procedure for selecting and ranking ground-motion prediction equations (GMPEs): The Euclidean distance-based ranking (EDR) method

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 2 A, 2013, Pages 1069-1084

  Kale, Özkan ^a   Akkar, Sinan ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEATORY VARIABILITY; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; GROUND-MOTION MODELS; GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RESIDUAL ANALYSIS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

GEOPHYSICS;

DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANKING; SEISMIC HAZARD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875435945     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120134     Document Type: Article

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