Waveform modeling of historical seismograms of the 1930 Irpinia earthquake provides insight on "blind" faulting in Southern Apennines (Italy)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Pino, N A ^a   Palombo, B ^b   Ventura, G ^b   Perniola, B ^c   Ferrari, G ^d  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d SGA srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; GEODYNAMICS; HOLOCENE; MODELING; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMOGRAM; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 55349144923     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005211     Document Type: Article

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