The Bortoluzzi Mud Volcano (Ionian Sea, Italy) and its potential for tracking the seismic cycle of active faults

Cuffaro, Marco; Billi, Andrea; Bigi, Sabina; Bosman, Alessandro; Caruso, Cinzia G.; Conti, Alessia; Corbo, Andrea; Costanza, Antonio; D'Anna, Giuseppe; Doglioni, Carlo; Esestime, Paolo; Fertitta, Gioacchino; Gasperini, Luca; Italiano, Francesco; Lazzaro, Gianluca; Ligi, Marco; Longo, Manfredi; Martorelli, Eleonora; Petracchini, Lorenzo; Petricca, Patrizio; Polonia, Alina; Sgroi, Tiziana

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-741-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-741-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-741-2019

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The Bortoluzzi Mud Volcano (Ionian Sea, Italy) and its potential for tracking the seismic cycle of active faults

Marco Cuffaro, Andrea Billi, Sabina Bigi, Alessandro Bosman, Cinzia G. Caruso, Alessia Conti, Andrea Corbo, Antonio Costanza, Giuseppe D'Anna, Carlo Doglioni, Paolo Esestime, Gioacchino Fertitta, Luca Gasperini, Francesco Italiano, Gianluca Lazzaro, Marco Ligi, Manfredi Longo, Eleonora Martorelli, Lorenzo Petracchini, Patrizio Petricca, Alina Polonia, and Tiziana Sgroi

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RC1: 'Review of The Bortoluzzi Mud Volcano', Anonymous Referee #1, 29 Jan 2019
- AC2: 'our responses', Andrea Billi, 16 Apr 2019
AC1: 'figure change', Andrea Billi, 30 Jan 2019
RC2: 'Bortoluzzi Mud Volcano (Ionian Sea) review', Anonymous Referee #2, 04 Mar 2019
- AC3: 'our responses', Andrea Billi, 16 Apr 2019

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ED: Publish as is (25 Apr 2019) by Federico Rossetti (Executive editor)

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Short summary

The Ionian Sea in southern Italy is at the center of active convergence between the Eurasian and African plates, with many known M_w > 7.0 earthquakes. Here, a recently discovered mud volcano (called the Bortoluzzi Mud Volcano or BMV) was surveyed during the Seismofaults 2017 cruise (May 2017). The BMV is the active emergence of crustal fluids probably squeezed up during the seismic cycle. As such, the BMV may potentially be used to track the seismic cycle of active faults.