Fault-based earthquake rupture forecast in Central Italy: Remarks after the L'Aquila Mw 6.3 Event

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 404-412

  Peruzza, Laura ^a   Pace, Bruno ^b   Visini, Francesco ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

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EID: 78751589072     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120090276     Document Type: Note

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