A decade of passive seismic monitoring experiments with local networks in four Italian regions

Tectonophysics

Volumn 476, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 85-98

  Chiaraluce, L ^a   Valoroso, L ^a   Anselmi, M ^a   Bagh, S ^a,b   Chiarabba, C ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b National Earthquake Center   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Background seismicity; Moment rate; Seismic rate; Seismicity pattern

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE;

BACKGROUND SEISMICITY; DETECTION THRESHOLD; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; NORTHERN APENNINES; SEISMIC MONITORING; SEISMICITY PATTERN; SOUTHERN APENNINES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; KINEMATICS; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIN RATE;

ITALY;

EID: 78149499351     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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