TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1996//
TI  - Seismic hazard assessment for low-seismicity areas -- Case study: Northern Germany
JO  - Natural hazards
A1  - Grünthal, Gottfried
A1  - Bosse, Christian
SP  - 127
EP  - 139
VL  - 14
IS  - 2-3
N2  - The problem of assessing seismic hazard in low-seismicity areas becomes obvious in many practical applications. A typical low-seismicity area, which experienced damaging earthquakes in historical times, is the North German Plain, for which a case study is presented. It is shown how seismic hazard assessments are influenced by different interpretations of historical key earthquakes, changes in b-value as well as variations of the upper bound magnitude assumed for the seismic source regions. The latter strongly influences the hazard results in the case of very low b-values for long return periods.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0921-030X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00128261
ID  - ref1
ER  -