The September 27, 2012, ML 4.1, Benevento earthquake: A case of strike-slip faulting in Southern Apennines (Italy)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 660, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-46

  Adinolfi, Guido Maria ^a   De Matteis, Raffaella ^b   Orefice, Antonella ^c   Festa, Gaetano ^c   Zollo, Aldo ^c   de Nardis, Rita ^a,d   Lavecchia, Giusy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benevento earthquake; Earthquake re location; Seismotectonics; Southern Apennines (Italy); Strike slip faulting; Study of background seismicity

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE; MOMENT TENSOR INVERSION; SEISMOTECTONIC SETTINGS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SOUTHERN APENNINES; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STUDY OF BACKGROUND SEISMICITY;

FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOCAL MECHANISM; MOMENT TENSOR; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMICITY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

APENNINES; BENEVENTO; CAMPANIA [ITALY]; ITALY;

EID: 84947038752     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2015.06.036     Document Type: Article

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