Analysis of small magnitude seismic sequences along the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 136-144

  Piccinini, D ^a   Agostinetti, N Piana ^a   Roselli, P ^a   Seht, M Ibs von ^b   Braun, T ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Focal mechanisms; Northern apennines; Seismicity; Stress field

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRESSES; WATERSHEDS;

FOCAL MECHANISM; NORTHERN APENNINES; REGIONAL STRESS FIELD; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONIC SETTINGS; STRESS FIELD; STRESS FIELD ANALYSIS; STRONG EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULT ZONE; FOCAL MECHANISM; KINETICS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD; TECTONIC SETTING;

ADRIATIC SEA; APENNINES; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78149470139     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.04.005     Document Type: Article

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