Earthquake relocations, crustal rheology, and active deformation in the central-eastern Alps (N Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 661, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-98

  Viganò, Alfio ^a   Scafidi, Davide ^b   Ranalli, Giorgio ^c   Martin, Silvana ^d   Della Vedova, Bruno ^e   Spallarossa, Daniele ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adriatic crust; Earthquake relocations; Faults; Italian Alps; Rheology; Seismotectonic model

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FAULTING; LOCATION; RHEOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ADRIATIC; BRITTLE DUCTILE TRANSITIONS; CRUSTAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE; EARTHQUAKE RELOCATION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; ITALIAN ALPS; RIGHT LATERAL STRIKE SLIP FAULT; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

CRUST; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE HYPOCENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; FAULT; RHEOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84946038541     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.08.017     Document Type: Article

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