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The kinematic rupture of the L'Aquila earthquake on the Paganica fault is reassessed with a highly comprehensive set of data. This very complete dataset is also used to explore the possibility that secondary faults may be involved in the coseismic process. The main characteristics of the slip distribution of the Paganica normal fault found by...

The validity and the stability of a ground-motion simulation method based on the recordings of a single small event as an empirical Green's function (EGF) is tested on a seismic crisis that occurred 25 km offshore of the Guadeloupe Islands (Caribbean arc). We aim to determine if (1) the method enables us to reproduce the observed ground motion,...

In this paper, we obtain an accurate estimation of the rupture velocity of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila earthquake (Central Apennines) by analyzing its apparent source time functions (ASTFs). These ASTFs have been extracted by deconvolving an empirical Green's function (EGF) at seismic stations located 200-800 km from the earthquake. From...

We applied a joint inversion of teleseismic data and InSAR measurements, aiming at obtaining a robust rupture process and slip distribution of the 2010 Yushu earthquake, through reducing the trade-off between slip timing and location. With the condition of the final static deformation of InSAR measurements, the rupture history can be achieved...