Quaternary fault segmentation and interaction in the epicentral area of the 1561 earthquake (Mw = 6.4), Vallo di Diano, southern Apennines, Italy

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 233-245

  Spina, V ^a,c   Tondi, E ^a,c   Galli, P ^b,c   Mazzoli, S ^b,c   Cello, G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; earthquake faults; intermountain basins; structural analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BASIN ANALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649193002     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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