The role of fluids in earthquake generation in the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake and its foreshocks

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1055-1056

  Savage, Martha Kane ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FLUID;

AQUILA;

EID: 78249266893     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus112010.1     Document Type: Article

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