Seismotectonics of strike-slip earthquakes within the deep crust of southern Italy: Geometry, kinematics, stress field and crustal rheology of the Potenza 1990-1991 seismic sequences (Mmax 5.7)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 445, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 281-300

  Boncio, Paolo ^a   Mancini, Toni ^a   Lavecchia, Giusy ^a   Selvaggi, Giulio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active stress; Crustal rheology; Deep crust; Seismotectonics; Southern Apennines; Strike slip seismicity

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; FAULT ZONE; FOCAL MECHANISM; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549059122     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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