Fault plane orientations of small earthquakes of the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) seismic sequence from P-wave polarities and rise times

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 322-338

  Filippucci, Marilena ^a   de Lorenzo, Salvatore ^a   Boschi, Enzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circular crack; Directivity; Fault plane solution; Non linear inversion; Polarities; Rise time

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PLANE; P-WAVE; PROBABILITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA-MARCHE BASIN;

EID: 33745606971     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.02998.x     Document Type: Article

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