Rupture history of the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Central Italy) main shocks from the inversion of GPS, DInSAR and near field strong motion data

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1355-1376

  Hernandez, Bruno ^a,d   Cocco, Massimo ^c   Cotton, Fabrice ^b,d   Stramondo, Salvatore ^c   Scotti, Oona ^d   Courboulex, Françoise ^e   Campillo, Michel ^b  

^a Laboratoire de Detection et Geophysique   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d Inst Radioprotect de Surete   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

Colfiorito earthquakes; Geodetic data modeling; Kinematic source models; Slip history; Waveform inversion

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; STRONG MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; MARCHE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA; WORLD;

EID: 12844283965     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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