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A uniform catalog of earthquakes for seismic hazard assessment in Iran

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The assessment of seismicity is strongly dependent on the recorded events as data base. A uniform catalog of earthquakes in Iran and neighbouring regions is provided to use for seismic hazard assessment of the country. Since the recurrence time of maximum credible earthquake can not be estimated directly from m b, empirical relationships for different seismotectonic provinces are established to convert m b to M s, which is a suitable magnitude scale for our purpose. It emerges from completeness study of the catalog that many small and moderate earthquakes are missed out, specially in the historical and early instrumental time-periods.

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  1. Institute of Geophysics, State Seismological Bureau, 100081, Beijing, China

    Noorbakhsh Mirzaei, Meng-Tan Gao, Yun-Tai Chen & Jian Wang

  2. Institute of Geophysics, Tehran University, 14394, Tehran, Iran

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Mirzaei, N., Gao, MT., Chen, YT. et al. A uniform catalog of earthquakes for seismic hazard assessment in Iran. Acta Seimol. Sin. 10, 713–726 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11589-997-0003-5

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