Asperity-based earthquake likelihood models for Italy

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 63-75

  Gulia, Laura ^a   Wiemer, Stefan ^b   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^c  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; FORECASTING METHOD; SEISMICITY; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ITALY;

EID: 78549274740     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4843     Document Type: Article

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