The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake (Italy): What's next in the region? Hints from stress diffusion analysis and normal fault activity

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 305, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 350-358

  Falcucci, Emanuela ^a   Gori, Stefano ^a   Moro, Marco ^a   Pisani, Anna Rita ^a   Melini, Daniele ^a   Galadini, Fabrizio ^a   Fredi, Paola ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active normal faulting; Central Italy; Coulomb stress diffusion; Earthquakes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NORMAL FAULTING; APENNINES; BELONG TO; CENTRAL ITALY; COULOMB STRESS; COULOMB STRESS DIFFUSION; FAULT ACTIVITY; FAULT SYSTEM; LATE HOLOCENE; NORMAL FAULTS; PROBABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC GAPS; STRESS DIFFUSION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

DIFFUSION; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; COULOMB CRITERION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HOLOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; STRESS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 79955088129     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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