First evidence of post-seismic deformation in the central Mediterranean: Crustal viscoelastic relaxation in the area of the 1980 Irpinia earthquake (Southern Italy)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Dalla Via, G ^a   De Natale, G ^b   Troise, C ^b   Pingue, F ^b   Obrizzo, F ^b   Riva, R ^c   Sabadini, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Deformation; Irpinia earthquake; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SEISMIC MOMENT; VISCOELASTICITY;

ITALY;

EID: 0141522838     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02031.x     Document Type: Article

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