On 6 April, 2009, a Mw 6.3 earthquake struck L'Aquila and dozens of neighbouring villages (Abruzzo, central Italy) causing 308 deaths and with thousands injured. Within Italian …
Morphological, stratigraphical and structural investigations integrated with palaeomagnetic and tephrostratigraphic studies and 40Ar/39Ar measurements allowed us to define the …
This study focuses on the seismic vulnerability of masonry buildings damaged by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake. A geo-referenced database of 32,520 masonry residential buildings …
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how public/private hybrid and ambiguous organizations played pivotal roles in a governmental programme of housing …
The influence of site effects on landslide triggering during earthquakes has been inferred in several studies, but its evaluation is made difficult by the complexity of factors controlling the …
P Galli, S Castenetto, E Peronace - Tectonics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The central Italy Apennines were rocket in 2016 by the strongest earthquakes of the past 35 years. Two main shocks (Mw 6.2 and Mw 6.6) between the end of August and …
Many Italian cities and towns have been affected by geological or geohydrological processes. However, due to the loss of historical memory, lessons of the past have been …
Urgent urban-planning problems related to the 2009 April, M w 6.3, L'Aquila earthquake prompted immediate excavation of palaeoseismological trenches across the active faults …
Field observations and modelling indicate that elastic interaction between active faults can lead to variations in earthquake recurrence intervals measured on timescales of 102-104 yr …