The Lassee segment of the Vienna Basin fault system as a potential source of the earthquake of Carnuntum in the fourth century a.d.

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1315-1329

  Beidinger, A ^a   Decker, K ^a   Roch, K H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Ground penetrating radar; Tectonic geomorphology; Vienna Basin fault system

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HANGING WALL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MAPPING; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

CARPATHIANS; DANUBE RIVER; VIENNA BASIN;

EID: 80051473518     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-010-0546-x     Document Type: Article

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