Recasting historical earthquakes in coastal areas (Gargano promontory, Italy): Insights from marine paleoseismology

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Fracassi, Umberto ^a   di Bucci, Daniela ^a   Ridente, Domenico ^b   Trincardi, Fabio ^c   Valensise, Gianluca ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; COASTAL AREA; DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION; DAMAGE PATTERNS; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; FAULT ZONE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTORICAL CATALOG; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HOLOCENES; INLAND FAULTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKE; ONSHORE LOCATIONS; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

COASTAL ZONES; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; COASTAL ZONE; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SHEAR ZONE; UPLIFT;

GARGANO PROMONTORY; ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 84857147621     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110001     Document Type: Article

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