Overview on the strong-motion data recorded during the May-June 2012 Emilia seismic sequence

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 629-644

  Luzi, Lucia ^a   Pacor, Francesca ^a   Ameri, Gabriele ^a   Puglia, Rodolfo ^a   Burrato, Pierfrancesco ^a   Massa, Marco ^a   Augliera, Paolo ^a   Franceschina, Gianlorenzo ^a   Lovati, Sara ^a   Castro, Raul ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; STRONG MOTION;

EMILIA;

EID: 84880212182     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0220120154     Document Type: Review

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