Present-day stress in the surroundings of 2009 L'Aquila seismic sequence (Italy)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1096-1102

  Mariucci, Maria Teresa ^a   Montone, Paola ^a   Pierdominici, Simona ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Downhole methods; Europe; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; ACTIVE STRESS; APENNINES; CENTRAL ITALY; DEEP BOREHOLES; DEPTH RANGE; DOWNHOLES; EARTHQUAKE FOCAL MECHANISMS; EUROPE; FAULT DATA; HORIZONTAL STRESS; NATURAL VARIATION; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS INDICATORS; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EARTHQUAKES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; WELLS;

BOREHOLES;

BOREHOLE BREAKOUT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ABRUZZI; APENNINES; ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 77955155848     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04679.x     Document Type: Article

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