Are the source models of the M 7.1 1908 Messina Straits earthquake reliable? Insights from a novel inversion and a sensitivity analysis of levelling data

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1025-1041

  Aloisi, M ^a   Bruno, V ^a   Cannavo F ^a   Ferranti, L ^b   Mattia, M ^a   Monaco, C ^c   Palano, M ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Seismicity and tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CO-SEISMIC DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SEISMOGENIC FAULTS; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

FAULTING;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA INVERSION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; LEVELING; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UPLIFT;

CALABRIA; ITALY; SICILY; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

EID: 84876867542     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggs062     Document Type: Article

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