Unveiling the sources of the catastrophic 1456 multiple earthquake: Hints to an unexplored tectonic mechanism in southern Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 725-748

  Fracassi, Umberto ^a   Valensise, Gianluca ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

INTENSITY ASSESSMENT; LATERAL SLIP EARTHQUAKES; SEISMICITY PATTERN;

EARTHQUAKES;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DATA SET; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; FOCAL MECHANISM; SEISMICITY; SLIP; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34250800283     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050250     Document Type: Article

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