The May-June 2012 Ferrara Arc earthquakes (northern Italy): Structural control of the spatial evolution of the seismic sequence and of the surface pattern of coseismic fractures

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 533-540

  Lavecchia, Giusy ^a   de Nardis, Rita ^a,b   Cirillo, Daniele ^a   Brozzetti, Francesco ^a   Boncio, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; SEISMICITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CONTROL;

EID: 84868159009     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-6173     Document Type: Article

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