In search of the predecessors of the 2011 Van (Turkey) earthquake

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 855-862

  Albini, P ^a   Demircioglu, M B ^b   Locati, M ^a   Rovida, A ^a   Sesetyan, K ^b   Stucchi, M ^a   Vigano D ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT;

TURKEY; VAN;

EID: 84866418239     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220110146     Document Type: Article

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