Spatial variation in stresses in peninsular Italy and Sicily from background seismicity

Tectonophysics

Volumn 317, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 109-124

  Frepoli, A ^a   Amato, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault plane solutions; Italy; Seismicity; Seismotectonics; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

SEISMICITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRESS; TECTONICS;

ITALY;

EID: 0034652523     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00265-6     Document Type: Article

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