Analysis of seismicity and micro-seismicity associated with the October-November 2010 Sampeyre swarm, Southwestern Alps

Tectonophysics

Volumn 611, Issue , 2014, Pages 130-140

  Barani, Simone ^a   Ferretti, Gabriele ^a   Scafidi, Davide ^a   Spallarossa, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

B Value; Double difference location; Micro seismicity; Seismogram cross correlation

Indexed keywords

B VALUE; CROSS CORRELATIONS; EARTHQUAKE FAMILIES; GENERAL DESCRIPTION; MICRO SEISMICITY; SCALING EXPONENT; SEISMIC NETWORKS; WAVEFORM SIMILARITY;

GEOPHYSICS; PHYSICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ALGORITHM; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE SWARM; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAM; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ALPS; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY];

EID: 84891556572     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.11.017     Document Type: Article

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