Intrinsic Qp at Mt. Etna from the inversion of rise times of 2002 microearthquake sequence

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1215-1234

  de Lorenzo, Salvatore ^a,b   Filippucci, Marilena ^a,b   Giampiccolo, Elisabetta ^c   Patanè, Domenico ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Centro Interdipartimentale per la Valutazione e Mitigazione del Rischio Sismico e Vulcanico   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Corrected Akaike information criterion; Intrinsic quality factor; Rise time; Stress drop

Indexed keywords

DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; MICROEARTHQUAKE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM; TRAVEL TIME; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34447511520     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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