Stress drop and source scaling of the 2009 April l'Aquila earthquakes

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 260-274

  Calderoni, Giovanna ^a   Rovelli, Antonio ^a   Singh, Shri Krishna ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Body waves; Earthquake ground motions

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

AZIMUTHAL VARIATIONS; BODY WAVES; EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS; EMPIRICAL GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKES; LEAST MEAN SQUARES; SOURCE DIRECTIVITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

BODY WAVE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GREEN FUNCTION; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAM;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84875252984     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs011     Document Type: Article

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