Coseismic and initial post-seismic slip of the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake, Italy, from GPS measurements

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1539-1546

  Cheloni, D ^a   D'Agostino, N ^a   D'Anastasio, E ^a   Avallone, A ^a   Mantenuto, S ^b   Giuliani, R ^c   Mattone, M ^c   Calcaterra, S ^d   Gambino, P ^d   Dominici, D ^e   Radicioni, F ^f   Fastellini, G ^f  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b Leica Geosystems AG   (Switzerland)

^c DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: extensional; Earthquake source observations; Europe; Satellite geodesy

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ASPERITY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEODESY; GPS; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SATELLITE DATA; SEISMIC SOURCE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 77953042162     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04584.x     Document Type: Article

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