First steps toward a reassessment of the seismic risk of the city of Dushanbe (Tajikistan)

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1026-1038

  Pilz, Marco ^a   Bindi, Dino ^a   Boxberger, Tobias ^a   Hakimov, Farhod ^b   Moldobekov, Bolot ^c   Murodkulov, Shohrukh ^b   Orunbaev, Sagynbek ^c   Pittore, Massimiliano ^a   Stankiewicz, Jacek ^a   Ullah, Shahid ^a   Verjee, Firoz ^d   Wieland, Marc ^a   Yasunov, Pulat ^b   Parolai, Stefano ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tadzhikistan   (Tajikistan)

^c Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences   (Kyrgyzstan)

^d Aga Khan Development Network   (Tajikistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMICITY;

DUSHANBE; TAJIKISTAN;

EID: 84893750125     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220130040     Document Type: Article

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