Magnitudes and source areas of large prehistoric norhern Alpine earthquakes revealed by slope failures in lakes

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1005-1008

  Strasser, Michael ^a   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^a   Fäh, Donat ^b   Giardini, Domenico ^b   Schnellmann, Michael ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Earthquake magnitude; Lacustrine sedimentation; Paleoseismology; Seismotectonics; Slumps

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOTECTONICS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LANDSLIDES; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKE; LANDSLIDE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PREHISTORIC; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SLUMPING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33845596829     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22784A.1     Document Type: Article

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