Monitoring Seismo-volcanic and Infrasonic Signals at Volcanoes: Mt. Etna Case Study

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1751-1771

  Cannata, Andrea ^a   Di Grazia, Giuseppe ^a   Aliotta, Marco ^a   Cassisi, Carmelo ^b   Montalto, Placido ^a   Patanè, Domenico ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

infrasound; LP events; Mt. Etna; source location; VLP events; Volcanic tremor

Indexed keywords

INFRASOUND; LP EVENTS; MT. ETNA; SOURCE LOCATION; VLP EVENTS; VOLCANIC TREMOR;

GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

VOLCANOES;

HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; INFRASONICS; MICROTREMOR; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOTECTONICS; VOLCANIC EARTHQUAKE;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84886252104     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0634-x     Document Type: Article

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