Pre-eruptive migration of earthquakes at the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (Réunion Island)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 549-558

  Battaglia, Jean ^a,b   Ferrazzini, Valérie ^a   Staudacher, Thomas ^a   Aki, Keiiti ^a   Cheminée, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake migration; Eruption; Piton de la Fournaise; Volcano seismicity

Indexed keywords

VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MASCARENE ISLANDS; OCEANIC REGIONS; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; REUNION; WORLD;

PLUMBING; SEISMOLOGY; VOLCANOES;

EARTHQUAKE MIGRATION; ERUPTION; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; GOOD CORRELATIONS; MAXIMUM MAGNITUDES; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE; PITON DE LA FOURNAISE VOLCANO; VOLCANO-SEISMICITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 18944398777     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2005.02606.x     Document Type: Article

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