Seismological investigations in the Gioia Tauro basin (southern Calabria, Italy)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 769-799

  Giampiccolo, Elisabetta ^a   Musumeci, Carla ^a   Falà, Filippo ^b   Gresta, Stefano ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Seismicity; Source parameters; Southern Calabria; Stress tensor

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT PLANE; P-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; STRESS FIELD;

GIOIA BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 65249153088     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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