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Paleoseismological evidence of multiple, large-magnitude earthquake surface ruptures on the active Mt. Morrone normal fault, central Apennines, Italy
Dipartimento InGeo, Università G. d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Alberto Pizzi
Dipartimento InGeo, Università G. d'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy
Stefano Gori
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Rome, Italy
Emanuela Falcucci
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Rome, Italy
Fabrizio Galadini
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Rome, Italy
Marco Moro
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Rome, Italy
Michele Saroli
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, INGV, Rome, Italy
DICeM, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio meridionale, Cassino, Italy
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We first investigated the recent activity of a major active fault system, probably responsible for the 1511 earthquake, one of the most destructive seismic events of the eastern Alps and of continental Europe over the past millennium.
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Solid Earth, 8, 319–337, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-319-2017, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-319-2017, 2017
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We integrated geological and geophysical data to study the evolution of a large sector of the central Apennines, in Italy. The adopted approach permitted us to cast light on timing of faults activity over the past about 2 million years. The results we obtained has implication in terms of assessment of seismic sources of strong earthquakes. In particular, we defined which of the investigated faults are able to produce large-magnitude seismic events and which are no longer able.
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Speleoseismological investigations have been adopted to characterize a complex tectonically active area in the easternmost sector of the Central Apennines. Evidence of earthquake damages has been recognized in the analyzed cave. Radiocarbon dating and the correspondence with independent data collected outside the cave provide constraints for the individuation of a M~7 mid-Holocene earthquake and for the identification of the nearby Sulmona normal fault as the most likely causative structure.
Paolo Boncio, Giuliano Milana, Fabrizio Cara, Giuseppe Di Giulio, Deborah Di Naccio, Daniela Famiani, Francesca Liberi, Fabrizio Galadini, Gianluigi Rosatelli, and Maurizio Vassallo
Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2016-313, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2016-313, 2016
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The paper discusses geological aspects, methodological procedures of seismic microzonation and the implications on seismic site response of an urbanized area in a geologic environment of deep continental basin (the Avezzano town in the Fucino continental basin of central Apennines, Italy). The paper is of potential interest for the geological community and also for non-geologist scientists/technicians/decision makers working in the field of earthquake hazard.
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Subject area: The evolving Earth surface | Editorial team: Seismics, seismology, paleoseismology, geoelectrics, and electromagnetics | Discipline: Palaeoseismology
Aegean-style extensional deformation in the contractional southern Dinarides: incipient normal fault scarps in Montenegro
Peter Biermanns, Benjamin Schmitz, Silke Mechernich, Christopher Weismüller, Kujtim Onuzi, Kamil Ustaszewski, and Klaus Reicherter
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We introduce two up to 7 km long normal fault scarps near the city of Bar (Montenegro). The fact that these widely visible seismogenic structures have never been described before is even less surprising than the circumstance that they apparently do not fit the tectonic setting that they are located in. By quantifying the age and movement of the newly discovered fault scarps and by partly re-interpreting local tectonics, we introduce approaches to explain how this is still compatible.
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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.
We performed a paleoseismological study on the active Mt. Morrone fault, which constitutes one...