Notes on the co-seismic stress field evolution during the 1997 Umbria-Marche (Italy) aftershock sequence

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-28

  Alberti, Mauro ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Stress fields; Stress permutation; Umbria Marche 1997 seismic sequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960261118     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2009.02     Document Type: Article

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