Locations and magnitudes of earthquakes in Central Asia from seismic intensity data

Journal of Seismology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-21

  Bindi, D ^a   Parolai, S ^a   Gomez Capera A ^b   Locati, M ^b   Kalmetyeva, Z ^c   Mikhailova, N ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

^d NATIONAL NUCLEAR CENTER OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Historical earthquake; Intensity data

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC WAVE;

CENTRAL ASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84890564826     PISSN: 13834649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10950-013-9392-1     Document Type: Article

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