PRESTo, the earthquake early warning system for Southern Italy: Concepts, capabilities and future perspectives

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-153

  Satriano, Claudio ^a,b   Elia, Luca ^a,b   Martino, Claudio ^a,b   Lancieri, Maria ^c   Zollo, Aldo ^b   Iannaccone, Giovanni ^d  

^a Ctro Regionale di Competenza Analisi e Monitoraggio del Rischio Ambientale of the Campania district   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION; CONFIGURABLE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE EARLY WARNING; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; END-USERS; FUTURE PERSPECTIVES; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; PORTABLE PACKAGE; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; REAL-TIME DATA; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SAFETY MEASURES; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; SOUTHERN ITALY; STABLE SOLUTIONS; TRADE-OFF PROBLEM;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT ZONE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REAL TIME; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE;

ITALY;

EID: 78649447855     PISSN: 02677261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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