Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)

Cannata, Andrea; Cannavò, Flavio; Di Grazia, Giuseppe; Aliotta, Marco; Cassisi, Carmelo; De Plaen, Raphael S. M.; Gresta, Stefano; Lecocq, Thomas; Montalto, Placido; Sciotto, Mariangela

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-299-2021

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-299-2021

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Social seismology – the effect of COVID-19 lockdown measures...

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-12-299-2021

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Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

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02 Feb 2021

Research article |

| 02 Feb 2021

Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)

Andrea Cannata, Flavio Cannavò, Giuseppe Di Grazia, Marco Aliotta, Carmelo Cassisi, Raphael S. M. De Plaen, Stefano Gresta, Thomas Lecocq, Placido Montalto, and Mariangela Sciotto

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RC1: 'Review of the Sicily Seismic Lockdown by Cannata et al.', Stephen Hicks, 01 Oct 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer #1 (Stephen Hicks)', Andrea Cannata, 27 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Review of the “Seismic evidences of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: Eastern Sicily case of study”', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer #2', Andrea Cannata, 27 Oct 2020
RC3: 'A review of se-2020-136', Kasper van Wijk, 07 Oct 2020
- AC3: 'Reviewer #3 (Kasper van Wijk)', Andrea Cannata, 27 Oct 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Andrea Cannata on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (14 Dec 2020) by Tarje Nissen-Meyer

ED: Publish as is (16 Dec 2020) by CharLotte Krawczyk (Executive editor)

AR by Andrea Cannata on behalf of the Authors (18 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries put in place social interventions, aimed at restricting human mobility, which caused a decrease in the seismic noise, generated by human activities and called anthropogenic seismic noise. In densely populated eastern Sicily, we observed a decrease in the seismic noise amplitude reaching 50 %. We found similarities between the temporal patterns of seismic noise and human mobility, as quantified by mobile-phone-derived data and ship traffic data.