Location and magnitudes of earthquakes in Central Asia from seismic intensity data: Model calibration and validation

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 710-724

  Bindi, Dino ^a   Gómez Capera, Augusto A ^b   Parolai, Stefano ^a   Abdrakhmatov, Kanatbek ^c   Stucchi, Massimiliano ^b   Zschau, Jochen ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Kyrgyz National Academy of Sciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

Asia.; Seismic attenuation; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ASIA; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; MODEL CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC INTENSITY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; PARAMETERIZATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84876969656     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs039     Document Type: Article

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