Earthquakes in Italy: Past, present and future

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Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-249

  Valensise, Gianluca ^a   Amato, Alessandro ^a   Montone, Paola ^a   Pantosti, Daniela ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD;

ITALY;

EID: 0242275070     PISSN: 07053797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18814/epiiugs/2003/v26i3/016     Document Type: Article

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