Fault Segmentation as Constraint to the Occurrence of the Main Shocks of the 2016 Central Italy Seismic Sequence

Tectonics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 2370-2387

  Pizzi, A ^a   Di Domenica, A ^a   Gallovic F ^b   Luzi, L ^c   Puglia, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

2016 Central Italy seismic sequence; coseismic ruptures; earthquake hazard; fault segmentation; slip inversion; structural barriers

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICS; SEISMOLOGY;

COSEISMIC RUPTURES; EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; FAULT SEGMENTATION; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SLIP INVERSION; STRUCTURAL BARRIERS;

FAULT SLIPS;

BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP; STRONG MOTION;

ITALY;

EID: 85038212343     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2017TC004652     Document Type: Article

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