What is a surprise earthquake? The example of the 2002, San Giuliano (Italy) event

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 273-278

  Mucciarelli, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake statistics; Molise earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE;

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

EID: 22944448046     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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