Seismic scaling exponents as a tool in detecting stress corrosion crack growth leading to the September-October 1989 flank eruption at Mt. Etna volcano

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3685-3688

  Vinciguerra, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING; CORROSION; CRACK DETECTION; CRACKS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SCALING LAWS; VOLCANOES;

SEISMIC SCALING EXPONENTS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

VOLCANOES; STRESS CORROSION CRACKING;

CRACK PROPAGATION; FAULTING; MAGMATISM; SEISMICITY; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ITALY;

FLANK ERUPTIONS; FRACTURE LENGTH; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; MT. ETNA VOLCANOS; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; SCALING EXPONENT; SEISMIC SCALING; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

EID: 0033573560     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL005425     Document Type: Article

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