Response of Mount Etna to dynamic stresses from distant earthquakes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Cannata, Andrea ^a   Di Grazia, Giuseppe ^a   Montalto, Placido ^a,b   Aliotta, Marco ^a   Patanè, Domenico ^a   Boschi, Enzo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; GEODYNAMICS; NUCLEATION; PERMEABILITY; SEISMIC WAVE; SEISMOLOGY; SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE 2008; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 78650030846     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JB007487     Document Type: Article

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