High-resolution densely spaced wide-aperture seismic profiling as a Tool to aid seismic hazard assessment of fault-bounded intramontane basins: Application to Vallo di Diano, southern Italy

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1969-1980

  Bruno, Pier Paolo ^a   Castiello, Antonio ^b   Villani, Fabio ^c   Improta, Luigi ^c  

^a OSSERVATORIO VESUVIANO   (Italy)

^b ION GEOPHYSICAL   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; HAZARDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY;

BUILDING TECHNIQUES; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; GROUND-MOTION AMPLIFICATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; PRE-STACK DEPTH MIGRATIONS; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS;

FAULTING;

COMPLEX TERRAIN; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; HANGING WALL; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTRAMONTANE BASIN; PRESTACK MIGRATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VELOCITY STRUCTURE;

CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY; SALERNO; VALLO DI DIANO;

EID: 84878862474     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120120071     Document Type: Article

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