Insights on the kinematics of deep-seated gravitational slope deformations along the 1915 Avezzano earthquake fault (Central Italy), from time-series DInSAR

Geomorphology

Volumn 112, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 261-276

  Moro, M ^a   Saroli, M ^b   Tolomei, C ^a   Salvi, S ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active fault; Deep seated gravitational slope deformations; DInSAR; Geomorphological analysis; Seismic triggering

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; PLIOCENE; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SEISMOLOGY; SLOPE FAILURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; FUCINO BASIN; ITALY; L'AQUILA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69949083407     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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