Coseismic and potential early afterslip distribution of the 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila, Italy earthquake

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-40

  Yano, Tomoko E ^a,b   Shao, Guangfu ^a,c   Liu, Qiming ^a,c   Ji, Chen ^a   Archuleta, Ralph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c CGG   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; SEISMIC WAVES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; DISTRIBUTION FEATURES; L'AQUILA EARTHQUAKES; RADIATED SEISMIC ENERGIES; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS; STRONG GROUND MOTION; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; SEISMIC WAVEFORMS;

FAULTING; EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DATA INVERSION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GPS; GROUND MOTION; P-WAVE; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SEISMIC MOMENT; STRONG MOTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TELESEISMIC WAVE; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE;

ABRUZZI; ITALY; L'AQUILA;

AQUILA;

EID: 84906811740     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gji/ggu241     Document Type: Article

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