Waveguide effects in very high rate GPS record of the 6 April 2009, M w 6.1 L'Aquila, central Italy earthquake

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 490-501

  Avallone, Antonio ^a   Rovelli, Antonio ^a   Di Giulio, Giuseppe ^a   Improta, Luigi ^a   Ben Zion, Yehuda ^b   Milana, Giuliano ^a   Cara, Fabrizio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fault guided waves; ground displacement; high rate GPS; L'Aquila earthquake; transient deformation

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; FAULT ZONE; GPS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HOST ROCK; S-WAVE; SEISMIC SURVEY; SEISMOLOGY; TRAPPED WAVE; WAVE MODELING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84896741033     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JB010475     Document Type: Article

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