Multidisciplinary inferences on a newly recognized active east-dipping extensional system in Central Italy

Terra Nova

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 77-89

  Lavecchia, Giusy ^a   Adinolfi, Guido Maria ^b   de Nardis, Rita ^a,c   Ferrarini, Federica ^a   Cirillo, Daniele ^a   Brozzetti, Francesco ^a   De Matteis, Raffaella ^d   Festa, Gaetano ^b   Zollo, Aldo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c DIPARTIMENTO DELLA PROTEZIONE CIVILE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; QUATERNARY; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY;

ITALY;

AQUILA;

EID: 85007441162     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ter.12251     Document Type: Article

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