Source parameters and stress release of seismic sequences occurred in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (Northeastern Italy) and in Western Slovenia

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 160, Issue 3-5, 2007, Pages 192-214

  Bressan, Gianni ^a   Kravanja, Stefano ^a   Franceschina, Gianlorenzo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquakes; Scaling law; Seismic sequences; Source parameters; Stress drop

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; SHOCK WAVES; STRESSES;

AFTERSHOCKS; MAINSHOCK; SCALING LAW; SEISMIC SEQUENCES; STRESS DROP;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACCELERATION; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMICITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ZUNIGA;

EID: 33846572835     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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