Recorded Motions of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila, Italy, Earthquake and Implications for Building Structural Damage: Overview

M Çelebi, P Bazzurro, L Chiaraluce… - Earthquake …, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The normal-faulting earthquake of 6 April 2009 in the Abruzzo Region of central Italy caused
heavy losses of life and substantial damage to centuries-old buildings of significant cultural …

Learning from construction failures due to the 2009 L'Aquila, Italy, earthquake

N Augenti, F Parisi - Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2010 - ascelibrary.org
An earthquake sequence struck the province of L'Aquila (central Italy) leaving 305 dead,
about 1,500 injured, and 29,000 homeless. Hundreds of low-intensity events occurred …

Seismic damage assessment of unreinforced masonry structures after the Abruzzo 2009 earthquake: The case study of the historical centers of L'Aquila and …

M Indirli, LA S. Kouris, A Formisano… - International Journal …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The Abruzzo earthquake hit the city of L'Aquila and its surroundings on the April 6, 2009.
The aim of this study is to analyze the technical features of unreinforced masonry (URM) …

Seismic hazard scenarios as preventive tools for a disaster resilient society

GF Panza, C La Mura, A Peresan, F Romanelli… - Advances in …, 2012 - Elsevier
Lessons learnt from the destructive earthquakes occurred during the new millennium
provide new opportunities to take action, revise, and improve the procedure for seismic …

Predominant‐period site classification for response spectra prediction equations in Italy

C Di Alessandro, LF Bonilla… - Bulletin of the …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We propose a site‐classification scheme based on the predominant period of the site, as
determined from the average horizontal‐to‐vertical (H/V) spectral ratios of ground motion …

Very high rate (10 Hz) GPS seismology for moderate‐magnitude earthquakes: The case of the Mw 6.3 L'Aquila (central Italy) event

A Avallone, M Marzario, A Cirella… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila destructive earthquake was successfully recorded by
closely spaced 10 Hz and 1 Hz recording GPS receivers and strong motion accelerometers …

Barriers to enhancing disaster risk reduction and community resilience: Evidence from the L'Aquila disaster

AJ Imperiale, F Vanclay - Politics and Governance, 2020 - research.rug.nl
Building sustainable and resilient societies is a multidimensional challenge that affects
achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In crises and disasters, civil …

Spectral element numerical simulation of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake on a detailed reconstructed domain

F Di Michele, J May, D Pera, V Kastelic… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we simulate the earthquake that hit the city of L'Aquila on 2009 April 6 using
SPEED (SPectral Elements in Elastodynamics with Discontinuous Galerkin), an open …

Characteristics of the strong ground motions from the 6 April 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, Italy

A Akinci, L Malagnini, F Sabetta - Soil Dynamics and Earthquake …, 2010 - Elsevier
An Mw 6.25 earthquake occurred on April 6, 2009 at 03: 33 am local time, in the Abruzzo
region (Central Italy), close to the city of L'Aquila. The earthquake ruptured a North-West …

The 6 april 2009, Mw 6.3, L'Aquila (Central Italy) earthquake: strong-motion observations

G Ameri, M Massa, D Bindi, E D'Alema… - Seismological …, 2009 - earth-prints.org
On 6 April 2009, 01: 32: 40 UTC, an Mw 6.3 earthquake occurred in the Abruzzo region
(central Italy), close to L'Aquila, a town of 68,500 inhabitants. About 300 people died …