Fault zone properties affecting the rupture evolution of the 2009 (M w 6.1) L'Aquila earthquake (central Italy): Insights from seismic tomography

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Di Stefano, R ^a   Chiarabba, C ^a   Chiaraluce, L ^a   Cocco, M ^a   De Gori, P ^a   Piccinini, D ^a   Valoroso, L ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; FAULT ZONE; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; IMPULSIVE PHASE; INITIAL STAGES; LOCAL NETWORKS; LOCAL VARIATIONS; MAIN SHOCK; MATERIAL PROPERTY; P-WAVE VELOCITY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRAVEL TIME; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

LITHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

POISSON RATIO;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; HETEROGENEITY; MOMENT TENSOR; NUCLEATION; P-WAVE; POISSON RATIO; S-WAVE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SEISMOGRAM; SHOCK WAVE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAVEL TIME; VOLUME;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 79957955739     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010620     Document Type: Article

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