3D Tomographic Imaging of the Southern Apennines (Italy): A Statistical Approach to Estimate the Model Uncertainty and Resolution

Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 367-387

  de Matteis, Raffaella ^a   Romeo, Annalisa ^b,d   Pasquale, Giuseppe ^a   Iannaccone, Giovanni ^c   Zollo, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

error analysis; seismic tomography; southern Apennines

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

APENNINES; BASILICATA; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY;

EID: 77957117229     PISSN: 00393169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11200-010-0022-x     Document Type: Article

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