Towards an Automatic Monitoring System of Infrasonic Events at Mt. Etna: Strategies for Source Location and Modeling

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1215-1231

  Montalto, P ^a,b   Cannata, A ^a   Privitera, E ^a   Gresta, S ^b   Nunnari, G ^b   Patane D ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infrasound; monitoring system; Mt. Etna volcano; source location; source modeling

Indexed keywords

INFRASOUND; MONITORING SYSTEM; MT. ETNA; SOURCE LOCATION; SOURCE MODELING;

VOLCANOES;

MONITORING;

AMPLITUDE; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; INFRASONICS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOURCE PARAMETERS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 77957756293     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0051-y     Document Type: Article

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