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02 Feb 2021
Research article |
| 02 Feb 2021
| 02 Feb 2021
Seismic evidence of the COVID-19 lockdown measures: a case study from eastern Sicily (Italy)
Andrea Cannata
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali,
Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Flavio Cannavò
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Giuseppe Di Grazia
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Marco Aliotta
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Carmelo Cassisi
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Raphael S. M. De Plaen
Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México, Campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico
Stefano Gresta
Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali,
Università degli Studi di Catania, Catania, Italy
Thomas Lecocq
Seismology-Gravimetry, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Avenue circulaire
3, 1180 Brussels, Belgium
Placido Montalto
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
Mariangela Sciotto
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Etneo,
Catania, Italy
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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.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, most countries put in place social interventions, aimed at...
