First evidences of fast creeping on a long-lasting quiescent earthquake normal-fault in the Mediterranean

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 720-732

  Sabadini, Roberto ^a   Aoudia, Abdelkrim ^b   Barzaghi, Riccardo ^c   Crippa, Bruno ^a   Marotta, Anna Maria ^a   Borghi, Alessandra ^c   Cannizzaro, Letizia ^c   Calcagni, Laura ^a   Via, Giorgio Dalla ^a   Rossi, Grazia ^a   Splendore, Raffaele ^a   Crosetto, Michele ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d Instituto de Geomatica Castelldefels es   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Earthquake source observations; Seismotectonics; Space geodetic surveys

Indexed keywords

FAULT PLANE; FAULT ZONE; GEODESY; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP RATE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 70350375589     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04312.x     Document Type: Article

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