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13 May 2025
Research article |  | 13 May 2025

Paleoseismological evidence of multiple, large-magnitude earthquake surface ruptures on the active Mt. Morrone normal fault, central Apennines, Italy

Irene Puliti, Alberto Pizzi, Stefano Gori, Emanuela Falcucci, Fabrizio Galadini, Marco Moro, and Michele Saroli

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We performed a paleoseismological study on the active Mt. Morrone fault, which constitutes one of the most problematic structures of the central Apennines in terms of large earthquake probability. Information on historical seismicity is relatively sparse, and the paleoseismological record is only limited  to the northern portion of the fault. We investigated four trenches, and we recovered the occurrence of three events over the last 5–6 kyr, suggesting an average recurrence interval of 1800 years.
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