Contribution of numeric dynamic modelling to the understanding of the seismotectonic regime of the northern Apennines

Tectonophysics

Volumn 315, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 15-30

  Negredo, A M ^a,d   Barba, S ^b,c   Carminati, E ^a   Sabadini, R ^a   Giunchi, C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamic modelling; Earthquakes; Northern Apennines; Seismotectonics; Stress

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; GEODYNAMICS; MODELING; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ITALY;

EID: 0033364662     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00286-3     Document Type: Article

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