Earthquake sequences of the last millennium in L'Aquila and surrounding regions (central Italy)

Terra Nova

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-61

  Amato, Alessandro ^a   Ciaccio, Maria Grazia ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; HISTORICAL RECORD; SEISMIC RESPONSE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84855748067     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01037.x     Document Type: Article

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