Imaging the complexity of an active normal fault system: The 1997 Colfiorito (central Italy) case study

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Chiaraluce, L ^a,b   Ellsworth, W L ^c   Chiarabba, C ^a   Cocco, M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double difference location; Normal faults; Segmentation; Seismicity; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD;

ITALY; MARCHE; UMBRIA;

EID: 18244427915     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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