Source modelling of the M5-6 Emilia-Romagna, italy, earthquakes (2012 May 20-29)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1658-1672

  Cesca, Simone ^a,b   Braun, Thomas ^c   Maccaferri, Francesco ^b   Passarelli, Luigi ^b   Rivalta, Eleonora ^b   Dahm, Torsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Section 21 Telegrafenberg   (Germany)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake dynamics; Earthquake source observations

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DYNAMICS; EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCES; EARTHQUAKE SEQUENCES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE OBSERVATIONS; EXTENDED SOURCES; GROUND ACCELERATIONS; HISTORICAL BUILDINGS; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION;

ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MODELING; MOMENT TENSOR; PEAK ACCELERATION; POINT SOURCE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY; PO PLAIN;

EMILIA;

EID: 84877938078     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggt069     Document Type: Article

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