Broadband waveform inversion of moderate earthquakes in the messina straits, southern Italy

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors

Volumn 179, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 97-106

  D'Amico, Sebastiano ^a   Orecchio, Barbara ^b,c   Presti, Debora ^c   Zhu, Lupei ^a   Herrmann, Robert B ^a   Neri, Giancarlo ^c,d  

^a Saint Louis University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake focal mechanisms; Messina Straits; Seismicity; Southern Italy

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND STATION; BROADBAND WAVEFORM; CO-EXISTENCE; COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CUT-AND-PASTE; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EARTHQUAKE MECHANICS; FOCAL MECHANISM; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION METHODS; SEISMIC DEFORMATION; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOUTHERN ITALY; SPATIAL CHANGES; STUDY AREAS; SUBDUCTION TRENCH; TIME PERIODS; WAVEFORM INVERSION;

DEFORMATION; FOCUSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURFACE WAVES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; GEODYNAMICS; MOMENT TENSOR; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ITALY; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

EID: 77951093605     PISSN: 00319201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pepi.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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