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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-911-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-911-2018
Research article
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18 Jul 2018
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2018

First evidence of active transpressive surface faulting at the front of the eastern Southern Alps, northeastern Italy: insight on the 1511 earthquake seismotectonics

Emanuela Falcucci, Maria Eliana Poli, Fabrizio Galadini, Giancarlo Scardia, Giovanni Paiero, and Adriano Zanferrari

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We first investigated the recent activity of a major active fault system, probably responsible for the 1511 earthquake, one of the most destructive seismic events of the eastern Alps and of continental Europe over the past millennium.