Analysis of satellite and in situ ground deformation data integrated by the SISTEM approach: The April 3, 2010 earthquake along the Pernicana fault (Mt. Etna - Italy) case study

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 312, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 327-336

  Guglielmino, Francesco ^a   Bignami, Christian ^a   Bonforte, Alessandro ^a   Briole, Pierre ^b   Obrizzo, Francesco ^c   Puglisi, Giuseppe ^a   Stramondo, Salvatore ^a   Wegmüller, Urs ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOLOGIE   (France)

^c OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^d GAMMA REMOTE SENSING   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DInSAR; GPS; Ground deformation; Leveling; Multidisciplinary approach

Indexed keywords

3-D DISPLACEMENT; ACTIVE VOLCANOES; ASH EMISSIONS; D-INSAR; ENVISAT; ERUPTIVE ACTIVITY; FLANK INSTABILITY; GEODETIC NETWORKS; GROUND DEFORMATIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; INSAR DATA; INTEGRATION APPROACH; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; MAIN SHOCK; MT. ETNA; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NEAR FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PERNICANA FAULT SYSTEM; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMIC SWARM; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTEGRATION; KINEMATICS; LEVELING (MACHINERY); STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GPS; INTERFEROMETRY; LEVELING; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 81255166168     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.028     Document Type: Article

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