A local magnitude scale for southern Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2461-2470

  Bobbio, Antonella ^a   Vassallo, Maurizio ^b   Festa, Gaetano ^c  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^b Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDERSONS; AVERAGE VALUES; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; GLOBAL EXPLORATION; GRID-SEARCH METHOD; HYPOCENTER LOCATION; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; PARAMETER SPACES; PEAK ACCELERATION; PEAK VELOCITIES; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOUTHERN ITALY; STATION CORRECTION; WAVE FORMS;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

CORRELATION; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; LINEARITY; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549124360     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080364     Document Type: Article

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