Uranium groundwater anomalies and L'Aquila earthquake, 6th April 2009 (Italy)

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-50

  Plastino, Wolfango ^a,b   Povinec, Pavel P ^c   De Luca, Gaetano ^d,e   Doglioni, Carlo ^f   Nisi, Stefano ^e   Ioannucci, Luca ^e   Balata, Marco ^e   Laubenstein, Matthias ^e   Bella, Francesco ^a   Coccia, Eugenio ^e  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^d Civil Protection Department   (Italy)

^e LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL GRAN SASSO   (Italy)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Groundwater; Uranium

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; EARTHQUAKE SHOCK; FAULT CROSSINGS; GEODYNAMIC PROCESS; GRAN SASSO NATIONAL LABORATORY; MAIN SHOCK; MICROFRACTURING; OVERTHRUST; POTENTIAL STRAIN; PREPARATION PHASIS; SEISMIC SWARM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; STRESS-STRAIN;

GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; RADON; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

EARTHQUAKES;

CARBON 14; GROUND WATER; RADON; TRITIUM; URANIUM;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; FRACTURE MECHANICS; GEODYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARAMETERIZATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SPATIAL VARIATION; STRAIN ANALYSIS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TEMPORAL VARIATION; URANIUM; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EARTHQUAKE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYDROLOGY; ITALY; PREDICTION; ROCK; SHOCK WAVE; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; WATER ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES; FRESH WATER; ITALY; KINETICS; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; URANIUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AQUILA;

EID: 70649091135     PISSN: 0265931X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2009.08.009     Document Type: Article

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