Earthquake Triggering Inferred from Rupture Histories, DInSAR Ground Deformation and Stress-Transfer Modelling: The Case of Central Italy During August 2016–January 2017

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 174, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 3689-3711

  Papadopoulos, G A ^a   Ganas, A ^a   Agalos, A ^a   Papageorgiou, A ^a   Triantafyllou, I ^a   Kontoes, Ch ^a   Papoutsis, I ^a   Diakogianni, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

2016 2017 earthquakes; central Italy; DInSAR; earthquake triggering; Rupture histories; stress transfer; teleseismic P wave inversion

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY;

CENTRAL ITALY; D-INSAR; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGERING; P WAVES; STRESS TRANSFER;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; INVERSE ANALYSIS; P-WAVE; SENTINEL; STRESS ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TELESEISMIC WAVE;

APENNINES; ITALY;

EID: 85031744202     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-017-1609-8     Document Type: Article

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