The Campotosto Seismic Gap in Between the 2009 and 2016–2017 Seismic Sequences of Central Italy and the Role of Inherited Lithospheric Faults in Regional Seismotectonic Settings

Tectonics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 2425-2445

  Falcucci, E ^a   Gori, S ^a   Bignami, C ^a   Pietrantonio, G ^a   Melini, D ^a   Moro, M ^a   Saroli, M ^a,b   Galadini, F ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancona Anzio fault; Campotosto active fault; Campotosto seismic gap; central Apennine seismotectonic framework; central Italy seismic sequence

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FAULTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ACTIVE FAULT; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; SEISMIC GAPS; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEISMOTECTONIC SETTINGS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SURROUNDING REGIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; AFTERSHOCK; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ANCONA; ITALY; MARCHE;

AQUILA; LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 85052649398     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2017TC004844     Document Type: Article

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