Creep and locking of a low-angle normal fault: Insights from the Altotiberina fault in the Northern Apennines (Italy)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 4321-4329

  Anderlini, L ^a   Serpelloni, E ^a   Belardinelli, M E ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

coupling; creeping; Global Positioning System; low angle normal faults; plate kinematics; seismic potential

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KINEMATICS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); SEISMOLOGY;

CREEPING; GPS VELOCITIES; NORMAL FAULTS; NORTHERN APENNINES; PLATE KINEMATICS; POSITIVE STRESS; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SEISMIC POTENTIAL;

FAULT SLIPS;

CREEP; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PLANE; GPS; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE TECTONICS; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; STRESS FIELD;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 84966454964     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068604     Document Type: Article

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