The effectiveness of a distant accelerometer array to compute seismic source parameters: The April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake case history

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 354-365

  Maercklin, Nils ^a   Zollo, Aldo ^a   Orefice, Antonella ^a   Festa, Gaetano ^a   Emolo, Antonio ^a   De Matteis, Raffaella ^b   Delouis, Bertrand ^c   Bobbio, Antonella ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^d OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT STRESS; ARRIVAL TIME; AVERAGE VELOCITY; BEAMFORMING TECHNIQUE; CASE HISTORY; CENTRAL ITALY; CORNER FREQUENCY; DIRECTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; LOCAL MAGNITUDE; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; MOMENT TENSORS; NORMAL FAULTS; POINT SOURCES; ROBUST ESTIMATE; RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY; SEISMIC NETWORKS; SEISMIC SOURCE; SOURCE MODELS; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SOUTHERN ITALY; SPECTRAL MODELS; STRESS DROP; THREE-COMPONENT; WAVE AMPLITUDES; WAVE SPECTRA; WAVEFORM MODELING;

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTHQUAKES; SHEAR WAVES;

TENSORS;

ARRIVAL TIME; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; MOMENT TENSOR; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ATTENUATION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SOURCE PARAMETERS;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 79251624893     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100124     Document Type: Article

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