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Rockfall Seismicity Accompanying Dome-Building Eruptions

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  1. Facultad de Ciencias, Centre of Exchange and Research in Volcanology, Universidad de Colima, Bernal Díaz del Castillo 340, Col. Villas San Sebastián, CP 28045, Colima, Mexico

    Nick Varley

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Varley, N. (2015). Rockfall Seismicity Accompanying Dome-Building Eruptions. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_48

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