Source parameters of small and moderate earthquakes in the area of the 2009 L'aquila earthquake sequence (central Italy)

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 63, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-91

  D'Amico, Sebastiano ^a   Orecchio, Barbara ^b   Presti, Debora ^b   Neri, Giancarlo ^b   Wu, Wen Nan ^c   Sandu, Ilie ^d   Zhu, Lupei ^e   Herrmann, Robert B ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Moldova)

^e Saint Louis University   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Italy; L'Aquila seismic sequence; Moment tensor; Seismicity and tectonics.; Stress inversion

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; MOMENT TENSORS; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; STRESS INVERSION;

TECTONICS; TENSORS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC MOMENT; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SOURCE PARAMETERS; TECTONICS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 84883460706     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2013.02.005     Document Type: Article

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