New insights into banded tremor from the 2008-2009 Mount Etna eruption

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Cannata, A ^a   Di Grazia, G ^a   Montalto, P ^a,b   Ferrari, F ^a   Nunnari, G ^b   Patane D ^a   Privitera, E ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE; HEAT TRANSFER; NONLINEARITY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; WAVE FIELD;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 78650000129     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB007120     Document Type: Article

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