A microseismic study in a low seismicity area of Italy: The Città di Castello 2000-2001 experiment

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1315-1324

  Piccinini, Davide ^a   Cattaneo, Marco ^a   Chiarabba, Claudio ^a   Chiaraluce, Lauro ^a   De Martin, Martina ^a   Di Bona, Massimo ^a   Moretti, Milena ^a   Selvaggi, Giulio ^a   Augliera, Paolo ^a   Spallarossa, Daniele ^b   Ferretti, Gabriele ^b   Michelini, Alberto ^c   Govoni, Aladino ^c   Di Bartolomeo, Paolo ^c   Romanelli, Marco ^c   Fabbri, Julius ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c INOGS CRS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Low angle normal fault; Microseismicity; Seismic gap; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; MONITORING SYSTEM; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOMETRY;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 2942661558     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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