Defining a mid-Holocene earthquake through speleoseismological and independent data: implications for the outer Central Apennines (Italy) seismotectonic framework

Di Domenica, Alessandra; Pizzi, Alberto

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-161-2017

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-161-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/se-8-161-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 1

Research article

|

10 Feb 2017

Research article |

| 10 Feb 2017

Defining a mid-Holocene earthquake through speleoseismological and independent data: implications for the outer Central Apennines (Italy) seismotectonic framework

Alessandra Di Domenica and Alberto Pizzi

Download

Final revised paper (published on 10 Feb 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 27 Jun 2016)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'referee comments', Alessandro Maria Michetti, 19 Jul 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to the Reviewer 1 Comments', Alessandra Di Domenica, 27 Jul 2016
RC2: 'General comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Jul 2016

Short summary

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.