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Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
Articles | Volume 13, issue 1
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Method article
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10 Jan 2022
Method article |  | 10 Jan 2022

A functional tool to explore the reliability of micro-earthquake focal mechanism solutions for seismotectonic purposes

Guido Maria Adinolfi, Raffaella De Matteis, Rita de Nardis, and Aldo Zollo

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We propose a methodology useful to evaluate (1) the reliability of a focal mechanism solution inferred by the inversion of seismological data and (2) the performance of a seismic network, operated to monitor natural or induced seismicity, to assess focal mechanism solutions. As a test case, we studied the focal mechanism reliability by using synthetic data computed for ISNet, a local seismic network monitoring the Irpinia fault system (southern Italy).
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