The record of historic earthquakes in lake sediments of Central Switzerland

Tectonophysics

Volumn 394, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 21-40

  Monecke, Katrin ^a,b   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a   Becker, Arnfried ^b   Sturm, Michael ^c   Giardini, Domenico ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central Switzerland; Historic earthquakes; Lake deposits; Paleoseismology

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; LAKES; LIQUEFACTION; ROCK BURSTS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

DEFORMATION STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL RECORDS; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC DATA; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; LAKE DEPOSITS; MACROSEISMIC INTENSITY; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; SWITZERLAND;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 17844377641     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.053     Document Type: Article

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