Imaging the tectonic framework of the 24 August 2016, amatrice (central Italy) earthquake sequence: New roles for old players?

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 59, Issue FastTrack5, 2016, Pages

  Bonini, Lorenzo ^a,b   Maesano, Francesco Emanuele ^b   Basili, Roberto ^b   Burrato, Pierfrancesco ^b   Carafa, Michele Matteo Cosimo ^b   Fracassi, Umberto ^b   Kastelic, Vanja ^b   Tarabusi, Gabriele ^b   Tiberti, Mara Monica ^b   Vannoli, Paola ^b   Valensise, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; THRUST FAULT;

ITALY;

EID: 84996721571     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: 2037416x     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4401/ag-7229     Document Type: Article

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