Electrical Resistivity Tomography across the Paganica-San Demetrio fault system (L'Aquila 2009 earthquake)

Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 457-469

  Giocoli, Alessandro ^a,c   Galli, P ^a,b   Giaccio, B ^a   Lapenna, V ^a   Messina, P ^a   Peronace, E ^a   Romano, G ^a   Piscitelli, S ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Civil Protection Department   (Italy)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

2009 L'Aquila earthquake; April 6; Central Italy; ERT; Paganica San Demetrio fault system

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052921156     PISSN: 00066729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4430/bgta0029     Document Type: Article

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