Fault fragment control in the 1997 Umbria-Marche, central Italy, earthquake sequence

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1069-1072

  Meghraoui, Mustapha ^a   Bosi, Vittorio ^b   Camelbeeck, Thierry ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Servizio Sismico Nazionale   (Italy)

^c ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCE; FAULT FRAGMENT CONTROL;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULTING; SEISMICITY;

ITALY;

COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; GROUND SURFACES; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; THRUST STRUCTURES; TRANSVERSE FOLDS;

EID: 0033560513     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900153     Document Type: Article

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