Seismic monitoring of an Alpine mountain river

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 3276-3289

  Diaz J ^a   Ruiz M ^a   Crescentini, L ^b   Amoruso, A ^b   Gallart, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

fluvial seismology; large floods alert; mountain river; Pyrenees; seismic noise; snowmelt season characterisation

Indexed keywords

FLOODING; MOUNTAIN STREAM; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOLOGY; SNOWMELT;

ARAGON RIVER; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 84901020435     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JB010955     Document Type: Article

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