Displacement across the Trecastagni Fault (Mt. Etna) and induced seismicity: The October 2009 to January 2010 episode

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 414-423

  Gambino, Salvatore ^a   Bonforte, Alessandro ^a   Carnazzo, Antonino ^b   Falzone, Giuseppe ^a   Ferrari, Ferruccio ^a   Ferro, Angelo ^a   Guglielmino, Francesco ^a   Laudani, Giuseppe ^a   Maiolino, Vincenza ^a   Puglisi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; CREEP; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; INDUCED SEISMICITY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 80052988622     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-4841     Document Type: Article

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