Seismicity, seismotectonics and crustal velocity structure of the Messina Strait (Italy)

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 65-78

  Scarfì, Luciano ^a   Langer, Horst ^a   Scaltrito, Antonio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; Focal mechanism; Seismicity; Seismotectonics; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DISASTROUS EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; EURASIAN PLATES; EVENT LOCATION; FAULT PLANE SOLUTIONS; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; IONIAN SEA; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; OROGENIC BELTS; RAY DENSITY; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMICITY; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SEISMOTECTONICS; SELF-ADAPTING GRID; SOURCE REGION; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; TECTONIC SETTINGS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY; TYRRHENIAN SEA; VELOCITY IMAGES; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CAVITY RESONATORS; TECTONICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VELOCITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARRIVAL TIME; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; FOCAL MECHANISM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GEODYNAMICS; HETEROGENEITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONIC SETTING; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

EID: 70349811080     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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