High-resolution seismic tomography across the 1980 (Ms 6.0) Southern Italy earthquake fault scarp

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1-1

  Improta, Luigi ^a   Zollo, Aldo ^a   Bruno, Pier Paolo ^b   Herrero, Andre ^c   Villani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ROCKS; SOILS; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

FAULT ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY; FAULT SLIPS;

BEDROCK; BRITTLE FRACTURE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SCARP; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY;

ITALY;

EARTHQUAKE FAULT; GEOMORPHIC INDICATORS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; SEISMIC SURVEYS; SHALLOW STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0043287312     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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