Integration of historical, archaeoseismic and paleoseismological data for the reconstruction of the early seismic history in Messina Strait (South Italy): The 1st and 4th centuries AD earthquakes

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Barbano, Maria Serafina ^a   Castelli, Viviana ^b   Pantosti, Daniela ^b   Pirrotta, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; TSUNAMI;

CALABRIA; ITALY; SICILY; STRAIT OF MESSINA;

SCILLA;

EID: 84899731491     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-6369     Document Type: Article

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